PAIN CONTROL
MEDICAL ARTICLES
- "Death Spiral" Rationing in Baucus Bill Gravely Endangers America's Seniors: NRLC (2009)
- Rationing Health Care For Older Americans (2009)
- Doctor: I 'got rid of' patient after Katrina (2009)
- "Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective" (2008)
- Abortion and Euthanasia Bringing about the Demise of Catholic Health Care (2008)
- An Antidote to Assisted Suicide is Aging with Dignity (2008)
- "Quality of Life” is a Misnomer: The Case for Neonatal Euthanasia by Carlo Bellieni, MD (2007)
- A Study of Euthanasia and Depression in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients (2007)
- Treatment of Depression Decreases Suicide (2007)
- Bioethics Journal Advocates Assisted Suicide For Clinically Depressed (2007)
- Is Tube Feeding New, Expensive and Risky? (2007)
- Book by a Hospice Physician (2007)
- Study of 379 Canadians Receiving Palliative Care (2007)
- Hippocratic Oath (1997, 2006)
- Report: "Physician-assisted suicide v. Palliative care: a tale of two cities" (2006)
- The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care by Herbert Hendin, M.D.
- "Right" to be Dehydrated Key Right to Die Strategy (2006)
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology to Debate Killing Babies (Is there a difference between withdrawing treatment and actively killing a baby?) (2006)
- Feedback on Royal College's Debate Proposal (2006)
- Elderly Murder-Suicides Indicate Desperation, Not Compassion, Study Shows (2006)
- Coma Patient's Brain "Repaired Itself" (2006)
- UK Doctors Vote Against Euthanasia (2006)
- Doctors in Revolt Over New Euthanasia Policy (2006)
- Hippocratic Oath and the Year 2006
- Netherlands Patients Requesting Euthanasia Likely Depressed (2006)
- US Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Physician Assisted Suicide Law (2006)
- “Human Non-Person” (2005) - Important Article
- Parents Lose Right-to-Life Appeal (2005)
- Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (2005)
- Now Choose Life: Remembering Auschwitz, or Forgetting It? (2005)
- The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care (2004)
- AMA: 5 Years of Assisted Suicides is Too Long (2003)
- La eutanasia (2003) - Spanish
- HMO Asks for Doctors Who Will Help Kill (2002)
- Euthanasia Campaigners Infiltrating Hospice Movement (2002)
- "Existential" Suffering Not a Justification for Euthanasia (2001)
- Euthanasia Tells Elderly, Disabled: "Your Life is Worthless" (2001)
- Hospitals' Right to Refuse Care Needed for Life (2000)
- Cancer Specialists' Support for Assisting Suicide, Euthanasia Drops (2000) - Charts
- Summary of Oregon Reports to the New England Journal of Medicine (2001)
- Physicans Support Pain Relief Promotion Act (1999)
- Senate Committee Passes Pain Relief Promotion Act (2000)
- Medical Textbooks Lack Information on End of Life Care (2000)
- Problems Associated with Assisted Suicide (2000)
- Inequities in Health Care for Minorities and the Poor (1999)
- 79% of Americans: No Doctor Veto of Life Support (1999) - Charts
- Assisted Suicide and Cost Containment (1999)
- Oregon: State to Pay for Assisted Suicide (1998)
- Mood Swings 'Create Euthanasia Danger' (1999)
- Medical Professionals Working with Dying Patients (1998)
- National Council on Disability Position Paper (1997)
- British Doctors Reject Euthanasia Proposal (1997)
- Physician Assisted Suicide Medical Issues (1996)
- Psychiatry and Euthanasia (1995)
- Pain Control (c. 1993)
- Terminally Ill (c. 1993)
- Suicide and Mental Illness (c. 1993)
- Withholding Food and Fluids (1991)
- Study: Doctors Ignore Guidelines on Euthanasia
- Hungary Physicans and Advance Directives
- Connecting the Dots: Sanctity of Life Threatened on Many Fronts
- First, Do No Harm
- Fewer Doctors Support Assisted-Suicide Study Says - Charts
BIOETHICS
"The idea that people with disabilities are not worthy of society's acceptance or resources is not new. We see this form of hatred throughout history, often masked as benevolence. " ... Diane Coleman, J.D., Founder, Not Dead Yet, 1999.
"In my experience, when the pain is bad, what I need is not to be told I'm burdensome and it's my choice whether I want to live or die, and that perhaps I would be better off dead. What I need is to be surrounded by people who tell me, yes, my life does have value, and I'm not burdensome ... they can't take the pain away, but sometimes it's not the pain that hurts the most, it's the fear of being abandoned." ... Alison Davis, who suffers from spina bifida, hydrocephalus, and multiple other disabilities. May 30, 2009.
"A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of
its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will
never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The
intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does
not change depending on their circumstances."
... Pope John Paul II, Lourdes, France, August, 2004.
"... the choice of a mentally competent, terminally ill person to choose to self-administer medications to bring about a peaceful death is not 'suicide,' nor is the prescribing of such medication by a physician 'assisted suicide.' " ... The American Public Health Association (Click here for article)
“This is pure politics, of course ... It isn’t medicine. And it isn’t health ... A “surreal world” is being entered, words mean nothing other than what we want them to at the moment, and this is changeable from moment to moment. Clocks run backwards. Up is down, and east is west. The moon is made of blue cheese, if that serves our purposes. And the basic institutions of society are being steadily corrupted.” ... Wesley Smith, bioethics specialist and lawyer, commenting on the American Public Health Association statement (Click here for article)
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