Southern Medical Journal
 2022
DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001351
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Medical Futility: Choosing the Next Intervention

Richard Kelley Myers1,
Alva B. Weir2

Abstract: M edical futility is not a new problem. Most of our patients will someday face the overwhelming probability that their time to die is near. The question for us and our patients is whether we should move forward with an additional intervention when we doubt its success.

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