Withhold Treatment: Implications for Health Care Practice

Withhold treatment

Cover Content
• Introduction
• Implications for health care practice
• Case study and its relations with health care practice
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Medical treatment is provided to person with the goal of restoring or
maintaining health of patient. If treatment fails because there are some disease
that cannot be treated by medicines, artificial aids and several others which
results in failing treatment (Hickman & et. al., (2011).

Withhold Treatment
Withhold treatment is an action which is taken by health care sector of
discontinuing the care due to declining in their health. However, in this
situation care provider feel helpless as body of patient stopped recovering.
Apart from this, health care practitioners are those who take care of patients in
hospital or any other institutions. Moreover, they are the one under whose
eyes overall activities are conducted.