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Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
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↵Wilkinson himself acknowledges this (p9).
↵Wilkinson provides no alternative solution to the question of how to preserve the agency of a patient confronted with the impending or potential loss of her capacity to make her own healthcare decisions problem.
↵A thorough critique of the practical and ethical issues at play in defining and determining ‘best interests’ is beyond the scope of this commentary.
↵This is illustrated by Wilkinson’s example of decisions based on the rolling of a dice.
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