End Of Life Decisions - End of Life Decisions

Spain's socialist government will approve a draft law in March 2011 on end-of-life care that will allow people with incurable diseases to "die with dignity", the deputy prime minister said Friday.The law will spell out the rights of patients facing death and ...

Pinal County employee fired after euthanizing wrong dog who had saved soldiers in AfghanistanOfficials say an employee for Arizona's Pinal County has been fired after euthanizing a war-hero dog that wasn't scheduled to be put down.The unidentified employee at the Animal Care ...

I am planning on making a will. Aside from guardianship and distribution of property, can I state in this will that I do not want lifesaving measures -- or do I need to make a living will too?. What you need is ...

WebMD's Medscape site, which targets physicians and other health-care professionals, conducted a survey to get doctors' views on thorny issues ranging from whether physician-assisted suicide should ever be allowed to covering up medical mistakes to the appropriateness of romantic relationships with patients.. ...

A new report by researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project found that in the U.S., 29% of patients with advanced cancer died in hospitals and intensive-care units. More than 40% of cancer patients were admitted to intensive care in their last month ...

Dartmouth study finds cancer patients' end-of-life care is determined by their hospital, not their hopes..

One in three older adults with advanced cancer spends their last days in hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs), often with doctor's employing Herculean efforts to prolong their life.. The researchers reviewed the records of 235,821 Medicare patients aged 65 and older ...

A large randomized trial demonstrates that stenting and surgical clearing of arteries are safe and equally effective ways of treating the narrowing of the carotid arteries, called stenosis. Evaluated by G. Tang and J. Matsumura, University of Wisconsin; M. Alberts, Northwestern University, ...

Instead of using life expectancy as the requirement for admission, hospice care for dementia patients should be offered based on the patient's and family's desire for comfort care, suggest Mitchell and colleagues in the study published in the Nov. 3 issue of ...

Daniel James was a 22-year-old rugby player from Sinton Green, England , who dislocated his spine during a rugby scrum in March 2007. James tried to commit suicide three times, and finally traveled with his parents to Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland ...

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Topic: End Of Life Decisions

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AZ county employee fired for euthanizing wrong dog

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