The concept of medical futility is not similar to the concept of persistent therapy. Authors' reply

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• ¹ Center for Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland. [email protected]
• ² Department of Palliative Care, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Polan
• ³ Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
• ⁴ Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Żyrardów, Warsaw, Poland
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
• ⁶ Polish Institute of Evidence Based Medicine, Kraków, Poland
• ⁷ Department of Palliative Medicine, Palium Hospice, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
• ⁸ Catholic Academy in Warsaw – Collegium Bobolanum, Warsaw, Poland
• ⁹ Interfaculty Institute of Bioethics, The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Kraków, Poland
• ¹⁰ Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiology of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
• ¹² Center for Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
• ¹³ Fifth Military Clinical Hospital with Polyclinic in Krakow, Kraków, Poland
• ¹⁴ Center for Pain Treatment and Palliative Care, Clinical University Hospital in Wroclaw, Wrocław, Poland
• ¹⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdańsk, Poland
• ¹⁶ Department of Internal and Metabolic Diseases, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland