June 11, 2021 By: Andrés J. Gallegos, Jennifer M. Sender ROBBINS, SALOMON & PATT, LTD. SEEKS JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL HICKSON, FILES WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT AGAINST ST. DAVID’S SOUTH AUSTIN MEDICAL CENTER & ITS PHYSICIANS Robbins, Salomon & Patt, Ltd. (RSP) on June 10, 2021, filed a multi-count wrongful death lawsuit against St. David’s South Austin Medical Center (SDMC) and two of its physicians, in the United States District Court for the Western Dis…
…Cathy Ludlum on “For the People,” posted on WPLR by John Voket January 14, 2021 Host John Voket: Well, we’re closing today with an important subject, a component to an issue that we discussed a couple of weeks ago on the program when we hosted a guest talking about Senator Richard Blumenthal’s introduction of new end-of-life legislation at the federal level, and during that program we also learned that there was also some end-of-life legislation…
…criminates against them April 27, 2023 5:12 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Online article Link Joseph Shapiro [Note: To listen to NPR’s 3 minute audio, go HERE. Transcript from NPR is below.] MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Disability groups are challenging a California law that allows terminally ill people to get drugs to end their lives. The groups say that people living with disabilities are at greater risk of being coerced into seeking those medications…
…lp us continue the fight for our lives. Not Dead Yet Annual Report: October 2021 – September 2022 The Center for Disability Rights continued to extend administrative support and sponsorship to Not Dead Yet (NDY), a national disability rights group founded in 1996 and headquartered in Rochester, New York since 2008. NDY is governed by a national Board of Directorsand employs five full- or part-time staff members, a President/CEO, Assistant Director…
…ctors are Divided on Life and Death Issues by Lisa Blumberg Medscape is an online resource for healthcare professionals. It provides medical news and information and does surveys on current issues. (1) Its 2022 survey of 4100 U.S. doctors on “Right and Wrong in Medicine: Life, Death and Wrenching Choices” (2) indicates how divided doctors are on so-called life or death issues. I found aspects of the survey lacking in nuance and social context. For…
