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inlawrev-2512	Van Natta, Leslie E.	Physician Liability for Failure to Resuscitate Terminally Ill Patients	1982	28	.pdf	application/pdf	12783	661	58	94 While omission of ordinary medical treatment can result in physician liability because the physician has a legal duty to render such treatment, omission of extraordinary treatment should not have the same consequences. The issues of brain death, the right to die, and who pulls the plug had generated controversy in both the medical and legal professions before In re Quintan.1 That decision, however, trig- gered a re-examination of the concept of death.	cache/inlawrev-2512.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2512.txt