Lisa Blumberg – Medical Rationing: When Disability Bias Hides Behind A Magical “Invisibility” Cloak

April 27, 2020bioethics, COVID-19, futility, health disparities, healthcare rationing, life-sustaining treatment, medical discrimination, Our News & Commentary Blog, Sequential Organ Failure AssessmentCOVID-19, healthcare rationing, medical discrimination, SOFA scoreDiane Coleman

…ed with near reliability. (2) People confound doctors all the time and the longer the time frame at issue, the more speculative any determination of life expectancy becomes. It is simply magical thinking to believe that a triage officer, no matter how well intentioned she is, can go from bed to bed and know with any certainty whether a disability or underlying condition decreases life expectancy and by what amount. How is a triage officer to tell…

Lisa Blumberg: Assisted Suicide California Style

July 8, 2019"death with dignity", aid in dying, assisted suicide, california, Lisa Blumberg, Our News & Commentary Blogaid in dying, assisted suicide, California, death with dignity, Lisa BlumbergDiane Coleman

…e around with enough sway with him to suggest otherwise. Footnotes https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/obituaries/john-lheureux-dead.html https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/john-lheureux-05-06-19 https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2019/05/01/and-thus-suicide-began-prolific-author-john-heureux-wrote-his-final-essay-death-and-dignity/m4yqp88Bfb7RqSc1bFX0cM/story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/obituaries/john-lheur…

Not Dead Yet Submits Written Comments to IOM Transforming End-of-Life Care Committee

June 6, 2013"end of life", death through denial, dredf, futile care, Institute of Medicine, life-ending decisions, Marilyn Golden, national disability rights network, NDRN, Our News & Commentary Blog, protection and advocacy, Surrogate Decisions & GuardianshipDiane Coleman

…“Court orders feeding tube for disabled Yates County man”, Democrat and Chronicle, May 24. 2013, http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013305240049 [iii] Devaluing People with Disabilities: Medical Procedures that Violate Civil Rights http://www.ndrn.org/images/Documents/Resources/Publications/Reports/Devaluing_People_with_Disabilities.pdf [iv] “Disability Health Disparities Based on Negative Quality of Life Judgments Mus…

New Press Release from ‘No on 2’ (Mass.) – State Rep. John Rogers (D-Norwood) says ‘No’ to Ballot Question 2

September 27, 2012assisted suicide, Ballot Question 2, legislation, Massachusetts, No on Question 2, Our News & Commentary Blog, referendumStephen Drake

…oalition of disability rights organizations, doctors, nurses, community leaders, faith based groups and patient rights advocates. www.NoOnQuestion2.org www.Twitter.com/NoOnQuestion2MA www.Facebook.com/NoOnBallotQuestion2 …

From Stephen Mendelsohn: More Media, Etc. From Connecticut Hearings on Assisted Suicide

March 25, 2013assisted suicide, Connecticut, disability activists, disability rights advocates, legislation, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog, Second ThoughtsStephen Drake

…his work and his testimony (see below) at the Hearing: CT Mirror: http://www.ctmirror.org/story/19490/end-life-bill-brings-comfort-some-fears-vulnerability-others Fair and balanced, yet the comparison Arielle Levin Becker makes between Sara Myers and Cathy Ludlum is highly revealing (note my comment below the story). New Haven Register (my heads-up e-mailing got us this one, after an earlier story falsely claimed that HB 6645 was full of safegua…