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True or false? the most contentious legal cases have concerned the system's insistence on providing expensive, intrusive, and unwanted treatment to patients whose conditions are judged medically hopeless

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The answer is TRUE.

The most contentious legal cases have concerned the system's insistence on providing expensive, intrusive, and unwanted treatment to patients whose conditions are judged medically hopeless.

In her book "Introduction to Public Health", Mary-Jane Schneider noted that "Ironically, while there is no requirement to provide medical care to people who want and could benefit from it, many of the most contentious legal cases have concerned the system's insistence on providing expensive, intrusive, and unwanted treatment to patients whose conditions are judged medically hopeless.
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