Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to charging gender discrimination, Stanford undergraduates have questioned the Bohemian Club's treatment of its workers. After ties between Stanford and the Bohemian Club were made public, "some students joined with unionized workers who were protesting conditions at the Bohemian Club," Seawell said...
...serious moral and ethical questions of euthanasia. What has upset many doctors is the resident's decision to kill Debbie without attempting to allieviate her pain or without consulting her doctor or family. The American Medical Association's official guidelines say that physicians may withhold life-sustaining treatment under certain circumstances, but should never cause death intentionally. But as Debbie's case shows us, the line between the two has become fuzzy...
...ambiguity has led to the case's controversy, which has swept waiting rooms and operating rooms across the country. Unfortunately, the AMA never spells out the "certain circumstances" under which euthanasia is condoned. What's the difference between an "intentionally caused" death and a death caused when life-sustaining treatment is withheld...
...family instead. Under this theory, the resident in Debbie's case overstepped the bounds of his responsibilities as a physician. Debbie's ambiguous statement, "Let's get this over with," may not have meant that she wished to die but instead could have referred to a different treatment...
...Hippocratic oath) is always to save life--the problem is in defining what life is and whether a patient has any choice in ending it. The AMA must take a stand and establish a clear definition of life, and under what circumstances a physician can withhold life-prolonging treatment. Unless such guidelines are laid down, a tragic occurrence such as Debbie's induced death may again occur through the efforts of other "well-meaning" physicians...