…Times, 02/24/24) Lisa Beaudoin: Opinion: The misguided rhetoric of the End-of-Life Options bill (Concord Monitor 02/12/24) Kathy Jo Ware: Promoters of physician-assisted suicide ignore ways that could improve people’s lives (Minnesota Post, 02/06/24) Joan Cavanagh: Medical-assisted suicide endangers our most vulnerable (CT Mirror, 11/01/23) Lisa Blumberg: Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (Newsweek, 09/11/23) Terri…
…futility decisions are too often based on a physician’s subjective quality-of-life judgments. Today, I’d like to focus on a legislative remedy that developed in Oklahoma to prohibit such quality-of-life judgments. In May 2013, Oklahoma passed the Nondiscrimination in Treatment Act (NITA), which states: “A health care provider shall not deny to a patient a life-preserving health care service the provider provides to other patients, and the provisi…
…nually. State / Region Elderly Population* Cases of Elder Abuse** Arizona 1,176,503 129,952 Alabama 888,870 98,181 Alaska 80,613 8,904 Arkansas 561,850 62,060 California 5,728,021 632,693 Colorado 748,420 82,667 Connecticut 663,606 73,299 Delaware 169,763 18,751 District of Columbia 98,977 10,933 Florida 4,200,667 463,988 Hawaii 258,934 28,601 Georgia 1,433,316 158,318 Idaho 257,172 28,406 Illinois 2,176,100 240,363 Indiana 1,128,187 124,615 Iowa…
…willing person from being a living donor. Decisions must be made on a case-by-case basis with the preservation of the person’s normal health as a paramount value. We are therefore disturbed and disappointed by the tone and tenor of the proposal as well as the recommendations that would create a two-tiered system of assessment, reporting and scrutiny. The Committee’s focus as it seeks to expand the donor pool is not on donor protection but on tran…
…“deficits” common in folks with NLD. Stephen will share some of his journey, his own self-evolved coping strategies, and some of his own interpretation of what some of the “core” issues are in terms of NLD in his own life, which are a little different than what is reflected in NLD literature. I might write more on this later, but I won’t be talking – much – about NDY stuff, except how my neurological issues affect my work – in mostly positive ways…
