The difficulty occurs when physicians order "chemical" or "partial" do-not-resuscitate orders.

We also try to collaborate with physicians to end the "partial" do-not-resuscitate orders.

As medical advances make it easier to extend the lives of terminally ill patients, doctors have increasingly made use of the do-not-resuscitate order.

My mother's do-not-resuscitate order got tossed aside 13 years ago.

No." She signed a do-not-resuscitate order anyway, then informed her brother.

Today's code of ethics covers everything from reporting colleagues with substance abuse problems to accepting gifts, using placebos and do-not-resuscitate orders.

In addition, the patient, if he is competent, or a representative, if one is available, must agree for a do-not-resuscitate order to take effect.

The panel's decisions on the definition of death, do-not-resuscitate orders and organ and tissue transplants were all adopted by the Legislature.

But she has signed a do-not-resuscitate order; if Sgt. Gray's heart or breathing stops, doctors will not try to revive him.

The students raised questions about do-not-resuscitate orders, Medicare, Alzheimer's disease and decisions about putting elderly parents in nursing homes.