Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following "healthy" lifestyles may actually not prolong the lives of elderly people, two Harvard doctors have concluded after conducting a statistical analysis...
...Shawcross investigates the horrors that came after the bloodbath. Drawing extensively from official reports, international-relief-organization memos, firsthand experiences and interviews with protagonists from all sides, he has put together an assiduously detailed account of how, as one senior Red Cross official put it, "humanitarianism was used to prolong an agonizing political deadlock...
Physicians are being asked to walk a precarious tightrope as they attempt to meet the health-care needs of the elderly. Older people are justifiably frightened about modern medicine's ability to prolong life artificially. Considering the current medico-legal climate, there is frequently no alternative but to use such machines and devices even when it is against the physician's better judgment. Workable guidelines are needed to aid doctors as they try to achieve a balance between the concepts of death with dignity and the prolongation of meaningful life. Colorado's Governor Lamm...
...treatment." Many doctors who do not specialize in cancer fail to keep up with the latest treatment strategies and often lack the connections needed for speedy referral to a cancer center. Some subscribe to the principle "let them die in peace," thus discouraging patients from seeking care that may prolong their lives...
Many doctors feel uncomfortable with an attitude that is anything less than completely "aggressive" towards treatment, citing the Hippocratic Oath that all physicians take before practicing, which states that they will do all in their power to prolong or sustain life. But it is essential to remember that the oath was written thousands of years ago. The medical capabilities of the physician then were highly limited, so much so that it was safe to make such a promise without fear of the impending ethical questions raised by devices such as respirators or organ transplants. But many aspects of this oath...