Word: consents
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After three months of negotiations, however, the Justice Department persuaded the union to sign a consent decree acknowledging Mob influence and conceding to court-appointed officers. But the department agreed to hold off filing the decree as long as the union makes progress cleaning itself up. The deal left Coia on the job even though the original complaint described him as "associated with and controlled and influenced by organized-crime figures...
...rabbi in Berkeley, California, has proposed an alternative to traditional religious marriage: a ceremony for what he calls a "covenant of love" for couples wishing to sanctify lifelong monogamous relationships. Ancient Roman law recognized three categories of marriage--a legally sanctioned union, marriage by purchase and marriage by mutual consent. Perhaps states might recognize different types of unions for both same-sex and heterosexual partnerships...
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...
...cases a year; the U.S. equivalent would be 40,000 to 60,000) and abused. Indeed, legalization has resulted in so much abuse--not just psychological pressure but a shocking number of cases of out-and-out involuntary euthanasia, inconvenient and defenseless patients simply put to death without their consent--that last year the Dutch government was forced to change its euthanasia laws...
...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...