Word: physician
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...data base called for under a 1996 law that would track doctors convicted for crimes, some of whom have lost their licenses as a result. Yet the President is now calling for a new law that would require such a database. Regulators have known for years that even when physicians are convicted of crimes and are stripped of their medical licenses in one state, they often continue practicing in other states, sometimes only a few miles over the line from the location where they were caught. New York doctors have moved ten miles to New Jersey, safely beyond the reach...
...giving me a positive view about the media," said Ed Bernstein, an emergency physician teacher at the Boston Medical Center...
...touch of bravura was uniquely Swarttouw, but the candor about voluntary death was typically Dutch. While euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide remain taboo subjects in much of Europe and are contentious topics in the U.S., they have been openly debated and researched for more than 20 years in Holland, which has a record of pragmatism in dealing with thorny social issues like drugs and abortion. Euthanasia is still, under Dutch law, a crime punishable by up to 12 years in prison. But in fact, the Netherlands has tolerated the practice for more than a decade, and the number of cases...
...ethical experts to make sure these guidelines were followed: the patient must be suffering unbearably from an incurable disease; he or she must make repeated requests for euthanasia; the doctor should know the patient well enough to ensure the request is voluntary, and the doctor must consult with another physician...
...practitioners say Holland's candor has merely thrown light on a common, if little discussed, medical practice. "Doctors all over the world shorten the lives of patients under the cover of pain reduction, and only we are stupid enough to talk about it," says Bert Keizer, a nursing home physician in Amsterdam, whose memoir about his life among the dying, Dancing with Mister D, was a best seller...