…d then DREDF is Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, the acronym D-R-E-D-F.org and actually, if you just go there at this point, the first thing there is the COVID, the link to their COVID resources and so, that’s the easiest way to find that. Bob Kafka: And hasn’t there been, I know – I think, four states where vent users have had their own personal ventilators confiscated when they went into the hospital? Do you have info on those lawsu…
…Next Steps and Last Steps® conversations. When these support materials are used by skilled facilitators in the context of these conversations, they serve as helpful decision aids. It is important that these materials be used only with these specific patient populations and by a trained facilitator. Without the context of the conversation, these printed facts may be misinterpreted. Respecting Choices is in the process of developing a work group to…
…verturn this longstanding policy, several of us would go down to the hotel used for the annual AMA conference and meeting to distribute a boldly colored leaflet about our reasons for opposing such a dangerous change in policy. Yesterday I decided to send a supplemental message to the AMA. In recent years, a few state medical societies have gone neutral on the issue. Among other reasons, they seem to be buying the unsupportable claim that there hav…
…octor Shopping” section of article at http://dredf.org/public-policy/assisted-suicide/why-assisted-suicide-must-not-be-legalized/#marker45] The state does not interview doctors who said “no” to the person’s request, so we don’t know why so many people had to go doctor shopping at C&C. The prescribing doctor’s also fill out a final report after the death, among other things stating the reasons for the request for assisted suicide. Among the top fiv…
…f https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01452 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/survey-finds-doctors-have-negative-perception-of-patients-with-disability/ https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/11928d05-eddb-46d2-b71e-1ffbc20f594d/FA2109CE679FA4075BF3C26200B25C3D.kin21821.pdf https://ncd.gov/sites/default/files/NCD_Organ_Transplant_508.pdf 14-15 page 3 https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/us/27transplant.h…
