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...bold new ruling by the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs ought to make it easier for doctors to go along with a family's request to end treatment. After two years of deliberation, the seven-member panel affirmed that patients' wishes, as best as can be determined, should be respected and their "dignity" maintained. It is "not unethical," said the council, for doctors to discontinue all life support for patients who are in irreversible comas, "even if death is not imminent." In its most controversial provision, the council included food and water on the list...
...fact, many managers are in an excellent position to hide drug habits because they can close their office doors and delegate work to others. Company officers also travel frequently, making it easier to use narcotics on the sly. Chief executives who order up internal investigations of drug problems are often shocked when the trail leads to some of their most trusted aides. Says Special Agent George Miller of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Companies never think of drug use on the executive level. They always think it's on the assembly line...
...assistance programs, commonly known as EAPs. Many of these programs were set up during the 1970s for workers suffering from alcoholism, and have since been expanded to include drug abusers. The motivation behind the EAPs has been economic as well as humanitarian. Says Drug Consultant Ingebritson: "It's much easier to help a person who has been on the job for nine years than it is to hire and train someone to replace...
Many companies, including Capital Cities/ABC, Xerox and Dean Witter, have made it easier for employees to seek help by setting up nationwide hot lines with toll-free 800 numbers that workers and their families can call to get advice on drug problems. The service offers a guarantee of privacy to employees who are reluctant to approach their bosses or stop by medical departments. Once the drug user is on the phone, the hot-line counselor can encourage him to get help through an EAP or local clinical program...
...number of ACSR proxy resolutions increased from 31 to roughly 90 in the last year due to a change in Securities and Exchange Commission laws making proxies easier, Gabarro said...