Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allowing a patient to die is morally acceptable, but euthanasia is not, a visting scholar at Harvard's Divinity School told 20 people in the Science Center last night...
...speech entitled "The Moral Dangers of Euthanasia," William Reichel, a professor of community and family medicine at Georgetown University, described the ethical difference between discontinuing treatment that prolongs a patient's life and forcibly ending it by lethal injection or other means...
Another problem with euthanasia, Reichel said, was its bad effect on the doctor-patient relationship...
...patient trusts the doctor to value his life and not to try to end it," Reichel said, adding that it was important to follow the Hippocratic Oath, which "keeps a separation between killing and curing...
...having a baby are slim. And many fertility specialists doubt that misleading advertising is as prevalent as Wyden claims. In fact, his assertion that half the clinics have never had a birth may be overstated because at least some of them have not been open long enough for a patient to complete a pregnancy...