• The American Medical Association's (AMA's) Code of Medical Ethics says it plainly: physicians are to sustain life but also to relieve suffering; and where one duty conflicts with the other, then the preference of the patient or his representative should prevail. Like the CEO of McKennan hospital recently said, "The person or the person's representative should have the last say."
• That conflict plays out in a newspaper story of a young man who had severe

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