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Impact of specialty on attitudes of Australian medical practitioners to end-of-life decisions

Diego De Leo and Jacinta L Hawgood
MJA 2008; 189 (6): 349-350

To the Editor: We support the conclusions reached by Parker and colleagues in their study on the attitudes of Australian medical practitioners to end-of-life decisions.1 They recommend the inclusion of decision-making theory and practice within medical ethics curricula, and highlight the need “to facilitate more discussion between specialties about medical decisions at the end of life”.1

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