Brain death, states of impaired con- sciousness, and physician-assisted death for end-of-life organ donation and transplantation. Med Health Care Philos 2009;12:409-21.Verheijde JL, Rady MY, McGregor JL. Brain
When the most vulnerable are sacrificed there follows as is seen in plain sight in USA - homicide, suicide, abortion and..assisted dying. The spectrum of death has no boundaries and when one inflicts fatality ones own life is at risk as the above cascade shows. . CONFLICT OF ...
Notice that the risk of attempting suicide is slightly higher than the risk of making a suicide plan until approximately age 19 years, when the 2 hazard curves cross. This suggests that nonplanned, impulsive attempts are more likely than planned attempts up to this point in young adultho...
Perhaps the low death rate from isolated benzodiazepine overdose underlies the widespread but unsubstantiated belief that benzodiazepine use is protective against suicide. Gold et al found significant levels of benzodiazepine use in a national survey of physician suicides . We found that suicide deaths ...
death; that the prohibitions have in recent years been reexamined and, for the most part, reaffirmed in a number of States; and that the Presi- dent recently signed the Federal Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997, which prohibits the use of federal funds in support of physician...
You must know that reading about side effects (always including death and distant metastases) is like reading a real estate purchase document—endless and endlessly terrifying. (care partner to 78-year-old patient with triple-class refractory MM) ...
This right includes the prerogative for a sentient intelligence to set forth in advance provisions for how to handle its physical manifestation, should that intelligence enter into a vegetative, unconscious, or similarly inactive state, notwithstanding any legal definition of death. For instance, a cr...
There was no family history of early myocardial infarction (MI), sudden cardiac death, clotting disorders, or hypercholesterolemia. She had been taking amitriptyline for migraines and oral contraceptives for 3 years. The patient developed significant hypotension, after she was given metoprolol and ...
As a leading physician, Rush had a major impact on the emerging medical profession. As an Enlightenment intellectual, he was committed to organizing all medical knowledge around explanatory theories, rather than rely on empirical methods. Rush argued that illness was the re...
A limitation of these reports is that they provide no information about self-harm events that do not result in use of health care services. As a result, relatively little is known about the underlying epidemiology of suicide attempts and how it may have changed in recent years. According to ...