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Ashcroft claims that the act violates the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). However, he also feels strongly that physician-assisted suicide is wrong and fears it allows physicians to abuse their power and act against the best interests of patients. However, the voters of Oregon were not hasty when voting for the law. While the act does legalize physician-assisted suicide, it does so only under tightly restricted circumstances. For example, it does not allow doctors themselves to administer lethal medication in the same way practiced by the infamous Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Instead, a physician can prescribe a lethal dose...
...legalization of physician-assisted suicide is actually safer than the alternative of letting patients find their own ways to kill themselves. When regulated, it is more predictable and less secretive. It also gives the family time to prepare itself and holds patients accountable for their actions...
Defenders of the Oregon law, including some people who personally oppose legalized physician-assisted suicide, have accused Ashcroft and the Bush Administration of hypocrisy. All five of Oregon’s House members have condemned Ashcroft’s action against the state. Ashcroft seems to support states’ rights only when the states are exercising their rights in a manner that pleases him and the president...
...anthrax attacks must be fixed--and in such a way that a newly nimble system can handle both the sudden emergency and the everyday job of fostering national wellness. "For the last 20 years we've neglected public health," says Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, the Senate's only physician. The terrorist attacks have "shocked Americans into realizing how dependent we are on the system...
...medical wires is central to managing crises like anthrax as well as more routine problems like Lyme disease, tuberculosis and the flu. Emergency rooms often perform this function in an ad hoc way; the emergence of West Nile virus in New York City was first detected by a hospital physician who was suspicious of two cases of encephalitis among her patients and prodded the city health department to launch an investigation. The CDC relies on a national network of sentinel doctors to do this kind of monitoring during flu season and uses a similar system of local labs...