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Institution: STANFORD Univ Med Center  | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In Vol. 6 No. 5, September 1997   Archives  •  Online Features LETTERS TO THE EDITOR  This Article  • Excerpt  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lynn P. Carmichael, MD Arch Fam Med. 1997;6(5):422. References Article references have been provided for searching and linking. Additional reference information may be available in the article PDF. 1. Doukas DJ, McCullough LB. A preventive ethics approach to counseling patients about clinical futility in the primary care setting. Arch Fam Med. 1996;5:589-592. FREE FULL TEXT