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Victims of mental illness have Frank Ayd to thank for his pioneering work in psychopharmacology: his discovery that chlorpromazine, also known as Thorazine, could be used to treat schizophrenia provided an alternative for those who otherwise might have been subjected to the trauma of a lobotomy. While Ayd recognized the...
Terminal sedation is the decision to keep dying patients, who cannot be made comfortable in any other way, unconscious until they die. As a last resort, such drug-induced sedation is legal in most countries including the U.S., and it is widely accepted as a mainstay of end-of-life...
Still, what's troubling about the new findings, Byock says, is the implication that doctors may be issuing the treatment either too early or without the patient's consent - or that they are using it to sidestep legal requirements to perform euthanasia. Nine percent of the patients in the study...
The Democratic leadership used various parliamentary maneuvers to ensure that the budget plan it had worked out would be considered as a whole; the only amendment they would permit was a substitute of Reagan's proposed tax and spending package. But no Republican was willing to introduce the Reagan version...
They also have an agreeably low budget and their project has a serviceable plot device - three nerds, fiendishly set upon by a high school bully, hire a bodyguard to protect them. He turns out to be not the special forces vet he claims to be, but a homeless man - physically...