A statement on POLST from the Minnesota Catholic Conference includes the concern that forms can be used for patients who are not terminally ill as a form of assisted suicide or euthanasia.

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End-of-life-planning resources POLST (Physician Orders For Life-Sustaining Treatment). The POLST form states what kind of medical treatment patients want toward the end of their lives. Printed on ...

With the growing technocracy in medicine, it becomes increasingly difficult for patients to have actual control over their own care. Everything has become so (expletive deleted) arcane! Mind ...

"Our finding that nursing home residents or their surrogate decision-makers often no longer agreed with their POLST form highlights the critical need to work with nursing homes, residents and ...