Word: patients
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...health care and fear invasive medical intervention to the bitter end, or a lingering, undignified death while hooked up to life-prolonging technologies. A Gallup Poll conducted last April found that 75 percent of Americans believe that doctors should be allowed to end the lives of terminally ill patients by painless means if the patient requests it. Two appeals cases on this issue made it to the U.S. Supreme Court this summer; the Court ruled that there was not a constitutional right to receive physician aid-in-dying, thus effectively turning the issue over to state legislatures for further discussion...
...this country. This law reflects the traditional belief that the lives of individuals belong not only to themselves but also to the families and communities in which they are embedded. In recent history, however, our laws have increasingly suggested that our lives do indeed belong more to ourselves, and patient rights have become exalted...
...lobbying for a competent, terminally ill individual's right to physician aid-in-dying. In 1990, the Supreme Court affirmed a constitutional right to refuse unwanted medical treatment, including food and fluids, and to appoint a health care surrogate decision-maker. These milestones demonstrate the concerted policy shift towards patient autonomy and patient-centered care...
Kala-azar itself was not the only problem. One day a patient who had gone mad threw a spear through another man's chest. Seaman operated and saved the man's life. Then she and De Wit operated on a man so riddled with tropical ulcers that his bones were exposed...
Once treated, a patient is likely to remain immune to the disease. But the price of stopping the epidemic, which amounted to more than $1 million a year poured in by MSF-Holland, has been high in human terms as well. Of 70 Nuer and Dinka nurses trained by Seaman and the other MSF doctors, more than 75% have come down with kala-azar themselves. Five lost children to the disease...