“It has always been an issue that people have not discussed what their treatment wishes would be if they were critically ill, and the COVID crisis with the rapid onset of serious symptoms has brought this dilemma into the forefront,” Siegel said in a statement.

Kayne added, “As health care professionals it is our ethical imperative to ensure that decisions are made that reflect the patient’s wishes, not the wishes of the family or physician.”

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