Word: kevorkian
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...administered questionnaire) that they had knowingly prescribed a deadly dose of narcotics to patients who wanted to die. Most of the doctors who provided such aid, says Slome, did so from one to three times. One doctor admitted to 100 instances, a tally far outstripping that of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. (Kevorkian, of course, practices a more activist suicide assistance...
...attend advanced AIDS, and of the partnership that can develop between long-term HIV patients and their physicians. But its findings can be used by either side in the legal debate. Champions of a perceived constitutional right to assisted suicide will argue that if so many doctors lacking Kevorkian's idiosyncrasies feel impelled to break a law on their patients' behalf, that law probably needs retooling. Opponents, however, may suggest that the current system works just fine: a statute outlawing assisted suicide, loosely enforced, will be reluctantly violated by doctors when necessary but will still express society's view that...
Hillary was seen but not heard. Roseanne, Rush Limbaugh, Al Sharpton, Joey Buttafuoco and William Bennett were also not heard. Thanks to the continued ministrations of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a few more people were no longer seen or heard. Calvin Klein was not dressed...
...realm of emotional development that marijuana does its damage. In any case, it seems there has been a mistake. Pot is not the drug of youth but rather of old age, the threshold of death--a little buzz before Kevorkian. It is a dulling drug, certainly useful as a palliative for the elderly. The young don't need to have their pain dulled. They need to learn from it. Perhaps baby-boomer parents, as they grow old, should reserve the world's marijuana supply for themselves and for what will no doubt be the gaudy and self-important theatrics...
RICHARD THOMPSON Never can say goodbye. Foiled repeatedly, he's prosecuting Dr. Kevorkian again. Good luck...