Advocates consider the POLST, or Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, an important tool that gives chronically and terminally ill patients greater control of their care in the final moments of their lives. Critics, including some physicians and Wisconsin’s Catholic bishops, fear it can be abused to expedite death and advance euthanasia… [They] cite a number of concerns, including the lack of a patient signature on the Wisconsin form and the absence of a conscience clause for health care providers.
Journal Sentinal (Milwaukee, WI)
“End-of-life medical care initiative prompts worries about abuse”
October 16, 2012
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