Unlike what they actually practice - pursuing aggressive, life-prolonging treatment for terminally-ill patients - most physicians would like to forgo it for themselves, a new study reveals. Most physicians would choose a do-not-resuscitate or " no code " status for themselves when they are terminally ill, according to a study from Stanford University School of Medicine . " Why do we physicians choose to pursue such aggressive treatment for our patients when we would not choose it for ourselves? " asked Vyjeyanthi S.
Periyakoil , lead author of the study. The reasons likely are multifaceted and complex. An overwhelming percentage of the 2,013 doctors surveyed - 88.3 percent - said they would choose "no-code" or do-not-resuscitate orders for themselves. In the study, Periyakoil and her colleagues set out to determine how physicians' attitudes have changed toward advance directives since…
