Word: cures
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...basic premise of medicine that doctors should be healers and care givers; that they must work for their patients' well-being; that if they cannot cure, they should at least do no harm. When they took their Hippocratic oath, they promised, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel . . ." But the plight of the incurably ill has challenged all these premises and left doctors and nurses deeply divided over their duties to the dying...
...patient from death? How great is the pain? How clear the will? Does the patient just want to be left alone, or is he asking to be killed? The Cruzan case has raised the basic medical issue of whether doctors must continue to treat patients they cannot cure. In its amicus brief to the Supreme Court, the American Academy of Neurology argues that the doctor's duty is to continue treating unconscious patients as long as there is some chance of improvement, which Nancy Cruzan does not have. When hope is gone, the duty ends. But the Association of American...
...subsequent spate of failures. "There ought to be something unethical about cashing in on the way up and on the way down," says novelist Michael Thomas (Hanover Place), a former investment banker. "It's like a doctor who builds a trade infecting people and then purports to cure them. This would raise ethical questions anywhere but on Wall Street...
...naturalist fallacy in this argument is easy to discern. By the author's moral criteria, taking a dose of penicillin to cure strep throat is a profoundly immoral...
...proponents of mind-body therapies believe they should be a component of standard medical care. Though they may not cure the illness, they can improve a person's quality of life -- and that just might alter the disease. "Physicians walk a very fine line between promising more than we know and destroying a person's hope," says Sandra Levy, a psychologist at the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. "We know mental health helps. Currently, we cannot go beyond that...