Family Care
In certain situation when you are managing a terminally ill patient, you are actually treating the family and relative compare to treating the patient him/herself. A term DIL/DNR are used in hospital setting when you have decided that medical or surgical therapy will bring no benefit and may cause more harm to the patient. Or it may not bring benefit and only used to prolong patient life of suffering with pain. Euthanasia is not a common practice in most part of the world. I also did not agree personally to this method of painless killing of patient even sometimes dying is much better outcome for a patient compare to his/her suffering throughout the last day of their life. No. I am opposing Euthanasia. So DIL/DNR bring much better definition in our practice in medical field. The term should reflect the quality of care that is given to that patient. Labelling DIL/DNR bring our attention that the patient need to be kept comfortable till the end of his or her time. Most DIL/