TITLE	Supreme Court en banc Decision 2009Da17417 Decided May 21, 2009¡¼Withdrawal of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment Device, etc.¡½ [full Text]
Summary
[1] Duty of care under a medical contract [2] Standard for determining whether to discontinue life-sustaining treatment [3] The case holding that a patient¡¯s entrance into an irrecoverable stage of death and the presumption of the patient¡¯s intent to seek discontinuance of life-sustaining treatment may meet the requirements for discontinuing life-sustaining treatment

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