“…giant step forward in helping patients at the end of their lives…”
By Carol Ann Campbell August 13, 2009 NEWARK, N.J. – Fourteen-year-old Prince Jackson made a fist and banged his hand on his head, again and again. “It was like this,” he said, trying to describe the blinding pain from the tumor growing inside his head. “It hurt so much. It wouldn’t stop.” Jackson could not [...]
When a patient in an intensive care unit is too sick to communicate, it is often the family that must make critical decisions about the patient’s care. This may mean deciding with the medical team whether to proceed with a difficult operation, for example, or to withdraw life support. This a situation that many of [...]
Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer features two op-ed piece taking opposing sides on Initiative 1000. If passed, the measure, which is on this Nov. 4 ballot, would allow physicians to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill adults who wish to take their own lives.
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