Word: physicians
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Weil, 55, a Harvard-educated physician, ought to know better than to tell stories like this. But Weil has a thousand of them. There's the one about the 19-year-old girl just months away from dying of a terminal blood disease who began a regimen of hypnotherapy, diet therapy and psychic healing, miraculously overcame her affliction and is now a 43-year-old mother of four. There's the one about the man apparently suffering from ulcerative colitis who did not respond to years of treatment by gastroenterologists but did respond to a therapist who manipulated his skull...
...been a while, however, since Weil had his druthers; this year the congenitally shy physician has gone decidedly public. A recent, typical fortnight saw him making book-tour appearances in Miami on a Saturday, Austin on Sunday, Minneapolis the following Thursday, Chicago on Friday, Cincinnati on Tuesday and Phoenix the next Saturday. He has breezily chatted up hosts on morning talk shows, shared his thoughts on evening-newsmagazine shows and kept studio audiences captivated for 90 minutes at a stretch discussing nothing more dramatic than antioxidants, ginseng and the value of regular exercise. Weil's crinkly smile, easy manner...
...course, narcotics are not the answer for everything. Nor should doctors prescribe any medications, opiate or otherwise, just to placate their patients. But studies have shown that when physicians take their patients' suffering seriously--and do all they can to relieve it--the patients respond by getting better faster and staying better longer. Asked why they want to die, most people who seek physician-assisted suicide respond that it's because they can no longer stand the pain. But when their pain is relieved, most would-be suicides suddenly find they are a lot more interested in living...
...third of the institutions that responded used cardiac-dead donors, some presumably injected with organ-preserving drugs. Cardiac dead used to be the most dead you could be. It wasn't until the late 1960s that new laws added the standard of brain dead. Hospitals make sure that the physician who officially declares death and the transplant team are separate, and that the family alone decides when to end life support and can refuse to donate organs even if a patient has a donor card. In an interview Wallace says he is happy to have brought the issue to light...
...moral objections, should refer the prescription to another on-duty pharmacist, or to another Longs, or to a competing pharmacy, if necessary." Collisions between beliefs and access to medication will increase as controversial new drugs surface and unconventional uses for old ones increase--such as those used in physician-assisted suicide. A recent survey of 625 pharmacists showed that 82% of them believe they have the right to refuse to fill a prescription for a drug such as RU-486 that would facilitate abortions. A new era of conscientious objection may be dawning...