"Futile Care" Crisis

Fatal outcomes are being imposed on patients by hospital staff as life sustaining measures are deliberately withheld and this should be a monumental story. The very notion that doctors are now empowered to override the advance directive of the patient and the desires of the patient's family is not widely known and hardly ever publicized. Medical futility policy is even somewhat obscure among medical professionals, but from the experience of my Father, I will attest that physicians are in fact ignoring both patients and their surrogates who seek care that will prolong life and intentionally orchestrating patient deaths.