Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…Therefore, resource allocation is morally justified by its potential to benefit future populations of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness, even if many individual cases will not result in a successful recovery.[14] Some physicians may respond that their role requires them to make clinical decisions that account for other patients since they must work within the practical reality of limited resources. They might argue that the physician’s duties are not bound to a single patient but to a network of societal constraints that require them to consider elements of distributive justice in their clinical care. …”
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Multi-cancer early detection tests for general population screening: a systematic literature review by Ros Wade, Sarah Nevitt, Yiwen Liu, Melissa Harden, Claire Khouja, Gary Raine, Rachel Churchill, Sofia Dias

“…Almost all studies had a high risk of bias in the ‘flow and timing’ domain; however, this is difficult to avoid when the reference standard for positive test results involves invasive testing, as it is not practical or ethical to undertake such tests in participants with a negative MCED (index) test result. …”
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