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...life decisions are never treated lightly. Hospital ethics committees confer with family members to establish proof of a patient's wishes. "Overwhelmingly, these cases are decided by consensus," says Dr. Joseph J. Fins, chief of the division of medical ethics at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center. "What's so tragic here [in Schiavo's case] is that you have a family divided against itself...
MHAAG secretary Andrew L. Kalloch ’06 said that so far this year the group had been able to find experts through their own contacts around the University. “Many of these personal relationships are based upon some sort of patient-doctor relationship or student-faculty relationship, so if at any point the group does not have people who have those connections, it might be harder,” Kalloch said...
...always stressed the importance of empowering people with diabetes and forwarding the effort to have a more scientific evaluation of how good patient education programs were and how they could be improved,” Joslin President C. Ronald Kahn told The Boston Globe...
...Janeiro suffering from a severe ear infection accidentally received a vasectomy in August when he responded to the wrong doctor’s call in the waiting room of a local clinic. The patient wasn’t alerted to the mix-up even by the nature and location of the procedure because he simply assumed that the infection had “deep roots...
...fruits of medical research for the facilitation and legitimization the destruction of life—besides being an utterly illogical proposition—should revolt even the least sensitive among us. It should also nauseate the entire medical profession. Applying medicine to ultimately enable the death of a patient flies in the face of the Hippocratic oath, and that prisons may have to resort to non-medical staff to administer the drugs should come as a loud warning sign that the ruling is unsound...