Abstract
The enclosed article addresses a common attitude of many hospice organizations regarding the enrollment of patients still on life support systems. Many hospices refuse to take a patient unless all life sustaining apparatus has been removed prior to admission. I am attempting to create an appropriate ethical and humane attitude which will influence all hospices to willingly accept patients in the above situation, relying on a hospice physician to remove life supports.
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