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Both supporters and critics of assisted suicide and euthanasia point to Holland to bolster their arguments. "It's terrible medicine," says psychiatrist Herbert Hendin, executive director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in New York City, whose recent book, Seduced by Death, brands Dutch policy a failure. The Dutch establishment, however, was reassured by the latest study. To address the biggest problem it found--more than half the doctors didn't report euthanasia cases to the public prosecutor as required--the government proposes that instead, doctors would report to a panel of legal, medical and ethical experts to make...
That's just the problem, insists Amsterdam psychiatrist Frank Koerselman, one of the few in Holland to buck the consensus. "Patients are scared by pain and the loss of their dignity, so they immediately start talking about active euthanasia," he said. "They are badly informed about alternatives." In particular, says oncologist Zbigniew Zylicz, who runs a hospice for dying cancer victims outside Arnhem, "the knowledge and practice are very low for palliative care," the art of easing pain in the final stage of a terminal illness. Zylicz estimates that a quarter of the 400 or so dying patients...
Zinberg, a well-known Harvard psychiatrist and a national leader in the field of addictions, argued that people's response to narcotics depends on their expectations and environment...
...would be easy in these prurient days to think of Darger merely as a compulsive old pervert--a sort of Poussin of pedophilia. (One art-historian-cum-psychiatrist opined in the New York Times that "psychologically, Darger was undoubtedly a serial killer," a wildly irresponsible judgment, since practically nothing is known about his character, and in any case, he never harmed a fly; much the same--and on the same evidence--could be said about the authors of the Old Testament...
...frequency?" Some doubted it. Others thought his stalker was a KGB agent. Still others, notably the band R.E.M., which had a hit with What's the Frequency, Kenneth?, saw the incident as a cry of alienation. The New York Daily News, working on a tip from a psychiatrist, suggested that the assailant was William Tager, a disturbed man who believed the media were beaming messages at him. If so, Rather has reason to be thankful. Tager is in prison for a 1994 shooting of an NBC stagehand...