Word: euthanasias
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...author of several publications dealing with medical ethics, Bok is concerned with issues such as euthanasia, access to medical care, abortion, and truth telling in doctor-patient relationships...
...their cigarettes after she finds out that McMurphy has been bilking them away at poker. That the Indian smothers McMurphy is supposed to mean that life as a vegetable is not preferable to death--perhaps this is true. It is appropriate that the film closes with an act of euthanasia, since it points out the major alternative to the system of care the state currently provides. Is it, really, preferable...
Society has always expected that hopelessly ill patients would be allowed to die in hospitals and has hoped that doctors would practice certain forms of euthanasia, says Dr. Alexander Leaf, who as Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine directs medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Where society has abdicated, he says, is in failing to give explicit approval to the practice or in defining just which patients should be allowed...
...more subtle and established practice of passive euthanasia, for which the Mass General committee did not set guidelines, is the labeling of certain patients "Do Not Resuscitate," or DNR. The designation applies to dying patients who are apt to suffer cardiac or respiratory failure. Doctors justify the practice because resuscitation only prolongs a patient painfully and at great expense. Cardiac arrest, they say, is only the last organ failure in a dying patient and to resuscitate him is not to allow nature to take its course...
...doctors at the three major Harvard teaching hospitals--Mass General, Peter Bent Brigham and Beth Israel--agree that "passive euthanasia" goes on all the time. Passive euthanasia is the death of a patient under a decision by the physician not to treat him aggressively, and it occurs through unofficial but established procedures...