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Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide
5,342 wordsIn a 1988 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, an article titled "It's Over Debbie" describes how an anonymous doctor administers a fatal dose of morphine to a woman dying of ovarian cancer (Anonymous, 1988). In a 1989 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, ten doctors associated with the nation's leading hospitals and medical schools declare their belief that "it is not immoral for a physician to assist in the rational suicide of a terminally ill person" (Water, et. ...
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2005 From The World Wide End Of Life
1,087 wordsAdvance Directives Advanced directives are special documents, which contain information about patients preferences and wishes as to medical care and treatment, made for the cases of inability of the patient to make medical decisions. Advanced directives are supposed to help doctors to learn, what kind of treatment every particular patient prefers, depending on the prognosis and difficulty of the situation, for example, in case of coma or permanent unconsciousness. There are two types of advance ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Passive Euthanasia
10,265 wordsI. Introduction In a 1988 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, an article titled Its Over Debbie describes how an anonymous doctor administers a fatal dose of morphine to a woman dying of ovarian cancer (Anonymous, 1988). In a 1989 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, ten doctors associated with the nations leading hospitals and medical schools declare their belief that it is not immoral for a physician to assist in the rational suicide of a terminally ill person (W...
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