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Do Not Resuscitate, Do Not Treat

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  1. Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

    Laurence B. McCullough & James W. Jones

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Kirby I. Bland MD (Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman) (Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman)

  2. Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Markus W. Büchler MD (Professor of Surgery and Chairman) (Professor of Surgery and Chairman)

  3. Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Santiago, Chile

    Attila Csendes MD, FACS (Hon) (Professor of Surgery and Chairman) (Professor of Surgery and Chairman)

  4. James C. Mason Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

    Michael G. Sarr MD

  5. Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    O. James Garden MBChB, MD, FRCS (Ed), FRCP (Ed), FRACS (Hon) (Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery) (Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery)

  6. Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

    John Wong BSc (Med (Syd)), MBBS (Syd), PhD (Syd), MD (Hon (Syd)), FRACS, FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Glasg), FACS (Hon) (Chair Professor) (Chair Professor)

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McCullough, L.B., Jones, J.W. (2009). Do Not Resuscitate, Do Not Treat. In: Bland, K.I., Büchler, M.W., Csendes, A., Sarr, M.G., Garden, O.J., Wong, J. (eds) General Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-833-3_20

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