Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carolyn Kaufman also does a fantastic job in her role as Laura. In the scenes where Amanda drills Laura about why she quit school, Kaufman makes the audience feel the depth of her pain and embarrassment as she shyly tells her story. Kaufman's dynamic talent shows when she transforms Laura from an overly shy girl nervously playing with the folds of her skirt into the carefree dancing woman she becomes with...
...also criticized medical technology which merely prolongs lives of AIDS victims into the painful stages of mental illness and raises medical costs. He warned that the pain may cause even higher suicide rates among AIDS victims, and that the high costs will increase pressure to legalize euthanasia. He said he favors home-based or hospice care as a more human alternative to institutionalized care...
...unknown resident's actions points to the serious moral and ethical questions of euthanasia. What has upset many doctors is the resident's decision to kill Debbie without attempting to allieviate her pain or without consulting her doctor or family. The American Medical Association's official guidelines say that physicians may withhold life-sustaining treatment under certain circumstances, but should never cause death intentionally. But as Debbie's case shows us, the line between the two has become fuzzy...
What about an individual's freedom of choice? Most doctors believe that a patient under great pain should not have power over his own life, but that the choice should be left up to the doctor and the family instead. Under this theory, the resident in Debbie's case overstepped the bounds of his responsibilities as a physician. Debbie's ambiguous statement, "Let's get this over with," may not have meant that she wished to die but instead could have referred to a different treatment...
...consideration of equal importance in life-and-death decisions has to be the patient's quality of life. Will a few more hours, days, or even months of mere existence in either pain or complete unconsciousness really add to the life of the patient or his family? Some may be horrified at this attitude. Some even think that making such judgements is akin to playing God. But we have moved toward God-hood by prolonging life by artificial means--should we therefore stop using respirators, mechanical hearts and lungs, and kidney machines? Advances in medical science have brought with them...