John M. Luce, MD, FCCM, discusses his latest article, “A History of Resolving Conflicts Over End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units in the United States,” published in the August 2010 issue of Critical Care Medicine. The article discusses the impact of end-of-life decisions on physicians, the team and the family, particularly when conflicts in opinion arise. Luce is a professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as a physician at San Francisco General Hospital.
