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The authors remain far from successfully diagnosing and treating brain injury patients who stay in states of prolonged disorders of consciousness. Futility judgments are clinical judgments made by healthcare providers about their patient`s health that can lead them to discontinue life-sustaining treatment. In this paper, I will critique the use of either kind of futility judgments to support the withdrawal of lifesustaining treatment for patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness. I. Futility Judgments about Likelihood Futility judgments reflect pessimism about the likelihood of a patient`s survival or recovery of consciousness. One . . .
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