PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gregory L Bock
TI  - Cultural sensitivity in paediatrics
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2012-100716
DP  - 2013 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 579--581
VI  - 39
IP  - 9
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/9/579.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/9/579.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2013 Sep 01; 39
AB  - In a recent Journal of Medical Ethics article, ‘Should Religious Beliefs Be Allowed to Stonewall a Secular Approach to Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment in Children?’, Joe Brierley, Jim Linthicum and Andy Petros argue for rapid intervention in cases of futile life-sustaining treatment. In their experience, when discussions of futility are initiated with parents, parents often appeal to religion to ‘stonewall’ attempts to disconnect their children from life support. However, I will argue that the intervention that the authors propose is culturally insensitive.