Use of resources needs to be addressed

doi:10.1136/bmj.309.6947.125

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Richard Fry

Senior registrar Department of Psychological Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London WCIN 3JH.

EDITOR,—Simon Finfer and colleagues' article and the accompanying responses seem to raise two distinct issues, which in my view should be kept separate: the wishes of the patient (and issues concerning consent) and the “moral” issue of use of resources. The only respondent who seems to have tackled the issue of use of resources is Michael A …