Purified factor VIII

There is still, however, substantial disagreement on what these distinctions are and which are most relevant.Generally, parents, in conjunction with health care pro- viders, are the most appropriate people to make life and death decisions for their children.Decisions by parents to stop treatment are made thousands of times each year without court supervision.Loving, caring families, presumably like that of Thomas Creedon, should not therefore routinely be subjected to undue public and legal scrutiny when they face such an agonising decision as whether to stop treatment on their child.But health care providers must always be on the alert for parents who do not speak in the best interests of their child or have conflicts of interest that may bias their views.Medical technology has reached a point at which the public, including the courts, must be more involved in these cases and educated on the basic principles, such as the distinctions between stopping treatment and euthanasia.One way is through landmark legal cases.But society needs to debate these issues more publicly and to develop ethical, medical, legal, and social policies on how to deal with them.