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50 Years After Quinlan: The Case That Gave Patients the Final Say
50 Years After Quinlan: The Case That Gave Patients the Final Say

(ANALYSIS) March 31 marks 50 years since a landmark decision that shapes American patients’ rights every day: the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had suffered an irreversible coma. Quinlan’s case established for the first time that decisions near the end of life should be made by patients and families, not by doctors and hospitals alone.

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