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Finally, even as Gore unveils a new ad about his fight for a patient's bill of rights, the Republicans will ramp up, not abandon, their attacks on his character. In addition to the sarcastic ad about Gore's Buddhist temple fund raiser, they plan to roll out the "no controlling legal authority" press conference and Gore's defense of Clinton as "one of our greatest Presidents" on the day of his impeachment. The ads will then pivot to something Gore is promising now, so that the message will be, If you couldn't trust Gore to tell the truth...
...life would only worsen as low levels of oxygen in her blood further destroyed her brain and that stopping delivery of Jodie's blood wouldn't be a positive act of killing but a passive by-product of saving Jodie, like withdrawing food and water from a terminally ill patient--which is legal in Britain and the U.S. under certain conditions...
Many physicians are also erroneously worried that they will addict patients or even kill them. Last year Kathleen Foley, another New York City pain specialist, released a study showing that 40% of her fellow neurologists wrongly believed that using a dose of morphine big enough to control breathlessness would actually euthanize the patient. (In truth, there's no ceiling dose of morphine, as long as the patient is given time to adjust...
Managing pain better would allow patients more comfortable deaths, but it can't guarantee easier ones. "When it comes to dying, pain comes in many flavors," says Robert Wrenn, who recently retired after 24 years of teaching about the psychology of dying at the University of Arizona. "Spiritual pain, social pain, even the unfinished-business pain that asks, 'Why am I here?'" Only the creepy would say dying should be cause to rejoice, and only the idealistic would say the health-care system could change our attitudes about it. But Byock, author of Dying Well, notes that dying's place...
...dying was medicalized, it was removed from our lives--to the ICU and the funeral home--both fairly new institutions if you consider how long people have been dying. Dislodged by modernity, dying became a taboo, slightly gross subject for polite conversation. Physicians and the families of their patients began to see death as a defeat, not an inevitable culmination. "We need education," says Dr. Kerry Cranmer of the American Medical Directors Association. "Instead surgeons get together when a patient dies to find out who screwed...