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Determines the party with the primary responsibility in futile clinical interventions. Recognition of the beliefs by both the family members and the responsibility of the attending physician; Consideration of the motivations and the role of a timely bioethical consultation; Study of 331 bioethical consulations with futile therapy; Dominance of the family decision to terminate therapy; Factors for therapy cessation.

Comments on medical care and presents a scenario of an octogenarian patient who is attended by numerous specialists. Question of how the family and patient are affected by the perspectives of specialists in multiconsultism; Discussion of who is the real doctor with a reference to the television game program 'To Tell the Truth'; Idea that the real doctor is the one who is apparently in charge and tends to the whole patient; View that tertiary care promotes specialist intervention.