Read: Are ICU Doctors Prolonging Life or Death?

Washinton Post: Paul Marik, an ICU doctor at Sentara Norfolk General, asks if doctors are prolonging life or death when they “do everything” to keep patients alive. Marik claims that patients too often suffer in vain attempts to prolong life, and that the urge to deploy every last aggressive medical technique ended up hurting patients more often than it helped them.