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PASSIVE EUTHANASIA is not considered murder by the U.S. legal system and in fact is practiced every day in hospitals all over the country. Usually it involves withholding drugs, treatments or heroic measures which, in the opinion of the doctor and the patient's family, merely prolong suffering and the patient's inevitable death...
Despite popular support, however, the issues and questions surrounding passive euthanasia have become far more acute and complicated for physicians, as a result of the tremendous gains in medical science's ability to significantly prolong the lives of many "terminal" patients. Today, more and more doctors must decide when it is no longer worthwhile to attempt to keep a patient alive by further treatment or heroic measures...
...patient is of a dual character. As Plato suggests, the physician is a friend to his patient as both a technophile (friend of medicine) and an anthropophile (friend of man). We seek an answer to the contradicitions in the physician's oath: Is the doctor foresworn primarily to prolong life or to curtail suffering? Is he bound primarily to a legal code or his own conscience? Furthermore, the sacred age-old injunctions to confidentiality and non-criticism inside the medical profession are not always the most pragmatic or desirable self-regulations. Is not the exorbitant cost of medical care...
Wounded Knee had become a kind of trap, particularly for television. It was obviously a major event that demanded thorough coverage. AIM leaders were so successful in getting their side of the story across, and so enthralled by the attention they were receiving, that they seemed willing to prolong the deadlock for the sake of still more publicity. Most newsmen watched helplessly as the thin line between covering and creating news wavered...
...Soviet Union, the American bombing escalation was termed heartless and brutal. In a statement issued by the official news agency Taw, the Soviet said. "The action can only complicate the situation, prolong the blood shed and make is more difficult to reach as agreement...