In brief

Dying Dutch patients are treated for too long: Dutch doctors continue intensive treatment of dying patients for longer than is desirable or in patients’ best interests, say almost two thirds of respondents in a survey of more than 700 doctors carried out by the Dutch Medical Association journal, Medisch Contact. Doctors, the respondents believe, are simply inclined by nature and training to offer treatment.1

Germans are to be asked regularly about organ donation: All Germans over 16 years old will regularly be asked to declare their wishes on organ donation after death, says an amendment of the German …