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Many physicians also fear that making the practice legal will lead to ill-considered decisions to terminate life. Some doctors believe--though have not proved--that a 1993 Dutch decision to legalize euthanasia has resulted in some cases of mercy killing without the patient's explicit consent. Clinical depression can often be the reason behind a terminal patient's death wish; so can unremitting, intense pain. Says Dr. William Wood, clinical director of the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University in Atlanta: "If we treat their depression and we treat their pain, I've never had a patient who wanted...
...practice, Chodak avoids either recommending or advising against a PSA test. "My approach," he says, "is informed consent. I tell my patients, 'If you want to see if you have cancer, then take the test. If you want to minimize your risk of undue harm, then don't take the test...
...others. Asch, who has fled to Mexico City, is currently under federal investigation for mail fraud, tax evasion and fertility-drug smuggling, as well as the thefts. Professing his innocence, he told TIME, "I think there were people in charge of setting me up who falsified documents and forged consent forms." Yet his former chief biologist, Teri Ord, testified recently that Asch not only knew of the misappropriations, but ordered them...
...Marie-Louise de Clermont Tonnerre of Chanel. "We will do everything we must to protect our creations." The houses recently filed a lawsuit to ban uploads and seek jail time for offenders, arguing that footage and photos of their lines are the designers' property and cannot be distributed without consent. It's more than a bit quixotic. Says De Clermont Tonnerre: "All we can do is let them know that if we catch [the pirates], it will cost them dearly...
...normal people and meriting Hollywood's sternest judgment. They were murdered--and a good thing too--in Caged and Suddenly, Last Summer. The nicer ones were left to their own misery, suicide being the only solution for characters who either had a homosexual fling (Don Murray in Advise and Consent) or were accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play The Boys in the Band to find good news amid the woe. As one character noted...