Catchword: terminal wean

Filed under: English, Medical

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: In twelve cases they performed a procedure called, in only mildly obscurantist language, a “terminal wean.” (Although neither doctors nor nurses literally “pull the plug,” the process is dramatic enough. After a doctor or, more often, a nurse turns down the respirator setting, death usually follows quickly, most often in an hour or two.)

Author:
Robert Zussman

Article, document, publication, web site:
Intensive Care : Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession

Date of publication:
July 15, 1992

Page number:
109

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