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Entries from blog.bioethics.net tagged with 'end of life'
Give Me ObamaCare and Give Me Your So-Called "Death Panels." It's Surely Better Than What We Have Now.
The conservative blog, mercatornet.com, invited yours truly to be part of a debate on health reform, the controversy over so called "death panels", and my views on the future of the American health care system. The piece written in opposition to mine can be read here, but I can summarize... (read the rest)
Metamorphosis: The Margaret Battin Story
It's the workaholics who are told that "your work is your life". It's many in academia who find that they are drawn to study the issues that afflict them or plague them or trouble them most about themselves or about the world. But in the case of Margaret "Peggy" Battin,... (read the rest)
Warnock: Dementia Patients A Waste
Some Brits are shocked at Baroness Mary Warnock's latest quote regarding the significant burden placed on Alzheimer's caregivers and her call for euthanasia for the demented. The St. Louis Examiner reported that she said, "Elderly people with dementia are 'wasting' the lives of those who have to care for them."... (read the rest)
Survey says... you've come to the end
A paper in the recent edition of PLoS Medicine proposes a radical idea: a computer might be better at making end-of-life decisions than a patient's family. A trio of researchers led by NIH's David Wendler created a "population-based treatment indicator" from already-published surveys of patient preferences in end-of-life cases. Wendler... (read the rest)
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