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Commentary on Derick Wade's ‘Back to the bedside? Making clinical decisions in patients with prolonged unconsciousness’ and Zoe Fritz’ ‘Can ‘Best Interests’ derail the trolley?’ Examining withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in patients in the permanent vegetative state
- Correspondence to Dr Stephen Holland, Philosophy Department, University of York, York YO1 5DD, UK; stephen.holland{at}york.ac.uk
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Commentary on Derick Wade's ‘Back to the bedside? Making clinical decisions in patients with prolonged unconsciousness’ and Zoe Fritz’ ‘Can ‘Best Interests’ derail the trolley?’ Examining withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in patients in the permanent vegetative state
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- Received August 5, 2016
- Accepted August 14, 2016
- First published August 31, 2016.
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June 29, 2017
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