Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that Palliative care--treatment that alleviates pain and suffering without necessarily relieving the patient's medical condition--is a better solution that euthanasia, but is not made available under our medical system...
Peterson said he felt allowing doctors to consider suicide as an option for a patient would undermine their ability to cure that patient. This fear was especially present due to the huge hold profitability has in HMOs, he said...
...ravages of serious illness--incontinence, disability, lack of ability to eat or swallow--can rob a person of any desire to continue what the patient considers to be a life with no further value to him," he said...
...variety of reasons, most awareness survivors never tell their anesthesiologist about the experience. One study suggests that only 35% ever say anything. But such studies are rare, and most anesthesiologists have no conception of how deeply their patients suffer. "I used to think people who talked about this topic were flakes," admits Texas A&M anesthesiologist Charles McLeskey, who became a believer after a patient told him what he had overheard while he was under...
When will it stop? When it always does. When the last speculator gets hung out to dry and the patient buyers begin to step up to the plate. The market that always bounces back first is the country with the strongest bond market. And that would be? Hmmm, that's easy. The United States...