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...harm to women. As you noted, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, doctors who deal daily with obstetric complications, are against the ban. And Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health is vehemently opposed to the ban on the procedure and to any interference in the integrity of the patient-doctor relationship and physicians' commitment to the safe practice of medicine. We owe it to our patients to provide the best possible care based on medical and scientific facts, rather than contentious emotional and political debates. SEYMOUR L. ROMNEY, M.D. Chair, Board of Directors Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health...
...groggy James Spader) a young gun working in an ultra high-tech intensive care unit who's looking to make it big. That is, he's looking to get rich and sleep with as many women as possible on the way up. Ernst spends his days tending to patients whose state of health runs the gamut from vegetative to permanently comatose-a foreshadowing of the film's extremely limited scope. His one patient who is actually conscious is a terminally ill dialysis case (played with stunning grace by Jeffery Wright) praying for death...
...bright spot amidst all of this failed moralistic posturing is a beautifully executed subplot involving the terminally ill patient (Wright) and the nurse (Mirren) who is eventually moved to help him end his life. A strong short film on euthanasia could have been made out of this storyline, but it only goes to waste here...
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...