A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care

Geoffrey K Mitchell; Lindy Willmott; Ben P White; Donella Piper; David C Currow; Patsy M Yates

doi:10.5694/mja2.50164

A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care

Geoffrey K Mitchell
, Lindy Willmott
, Ben P White
, Donella Piper
, David C Currow
, Patsy M Yates

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Abstract

A perfect storm arises from a rare confluence of adverse meteorological factors, and is a metaphor for an especially bad situation caused by a combination of unfavourable circumstances (www.oed.com). Health care at the end of life has been significantly disturbed by two converging fronts. The first is very public conversations relating to opioid overuse. The second is the current tension between standard end‐of‐life care and voluntary assisted suicide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	441-441.e1
Journal	Medical Journal of Australia
Volume	210
Issue number	10
Early online date	8 May 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50164
Publication status	Published - Jun 2019

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