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LeonhardtD., “After the Great Recession,”New York Times Magazine, April 28, 2009.
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See, e.g., Massachusetts Expert Panel on End-of-Life Care, Patient-Centered Care and Human Mortality: The Urgency of Health Systems Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients' Wishes and Accountability for Excellence in Care, October 2010; KolataG., “Asking Kidney Patients to Forgo a Free Lifeline,”New York Times, April 1, 2011.
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MooreG. E., Principia Ethica (1903).
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See CapronA. M., “In re Helga Wanglie,”Hastings Center Report21, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1991): 26–28.
7.
See, e.g., Arato v. Avedon, 858 P.2d 598 (Cal. 1993).
8.
See, e.g., Cal. Health & Safety Code § 442.5; N.Y. Pub. Health L. § 2997-c.
9.
See, e.g., HallM. A.SchneiderC. E., “When Patients Say No (To Save Money): An Essay on the Tectonics of Health Law,”Connecticut Law Review41, no. 3 (2009): 743–780.
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Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practices, Trends and Variation in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Severe Chronic Illness, April 2011.