Lisa Blumberg: Support Grows for a Bill of Rights for People with Guardians

…s consigning traditional guardianship to the dustbin of history. FOOTNOTES https://notdeadyet.org/2009/02/pennsylvania-important-guardianship.html https://casetext.com/case/in-re-tschumy-1 https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/resolution-506-guardianship-bill-of-rights https://www.aging.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_guardianship_bill_of_rights_one_pager.pdf Ibid….

NDY Submits Public Comment On Proposed ACA Rule 1557 Change

…rg/pb/assets/raw/sitewide/practice_guidelines/guidelines/suicide.pdf.   [9]: Robyn, C. (2020). Frequent Mental Distress Among Adults, by Disability Status, Disability Type, and Selected Characteristics — United States, 2018. Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report, 69(36). https://doi.org/https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6936a2.htm?s_cid=mm6936a2_w   [10]: Friedman, C. (2019). Most People Are Prejudiced Against People with Disabilities – The…

NDY Testimony to the Special Parliamentary Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying

…Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care” Health Affairs 40:2, 297-306, February 2021https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01452, [4] The number of witnesses was reduced from two to one in Bill C-7, which received royal assent on 2021-03-17. [5] Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing, CTV News, April 30, 2022, https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-di…

Anita Cameron: Health Disparities and Medical Abuse: Why Blacks Shouldn’t Support Assisted Suicide

…ation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2007) https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Apartheid-Experimentation-Americans-Colonial/dp/076791547X [2] Monika K. Goyal, MD, MSCE, et al., Racial Disparities in Pain Management of Children With Appendicitis in Emergency Departments (2016), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829078/#:~:text=Black%20children%20had%20one%2Dfifth,in%20the%20ED%20was%20low [3] Kelly M. Hoffman, Sophie…

John Kelly’s testimony covers medical mistakes, class and race/ethnic divide and more

…hin Six Months?,” J Palliat Med. 2014 Aug 1; 17(8): 894–898. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2013.0631. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4118712/ Madeleine Li, et al, “Medical Assistance in Dying — Implementing a Hospital-Based Program in Canada,” N Engl J Med 2017; 376:2082-2088. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1700606 Liz Szabo, “Death with dignity laws and the desire to control how one’s life ends,” Washington Post, October 24, 2016. ht…