…of them described in the article: The Institute on Healthcare Directives’ videos are carefully scripted and usually last 45 to 90 seconds. The goal is to convey essential information to physicians making crucial decisions (perform manual chest compressions? insert a breathing tube?) in time-pressed emergency medical situations. [Institute founder Dr. Ferdinando] Mirarchi helps draft scripts after taking a careful medical history, explaining vario…
…here – when Hentoff talks about “mainstream media” I hope he is including Fox News Channel along with MSNBC and other “mainstream” sources. Fox News was every bit as guilty as other networks in terms of framing the fight for Terri Schiavo’s life as a “culture wars” controversy as the other networks were. This wasn’t “liberal” bias – the right and the left worked in tandem on this – and in a way that kept the perspectives and involvement of disabi…
…ould have allowed euthanasia for people with disabilities, those with chronic conditions and people who are defined as terminal. Interestingly, no English-speaking news source has covered this story. As a bilingual Canadian, Alex pulled the news off of a French news source so we monolinguals could know about it. I’d bet there would be all kinds of English language coverage if the vote had gone the other way. Funny how that goes. You can read the r…
…uicide Instead of Medical Care,” Fox News, July 28, 2009, available at www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392962,00.html(accessed July 9, 2009). Margaret Dore, Elder law attorney, in writings such as “What Do We Advise Our Clients?,” King County Bar Association, May 2009 Bar Bulletin, available at http://dredf.org/assisted_suicide/What-Do-We-Advise-Our-Clients.pdf. Stephen Mendelsohn, Testimony in strong opposition to HB 7015, An Act Concerning Aid in D…
…The opinion of a second doctor is also required. For the Dutch euthanasia rules in English, click here That was done quickly (although without acknowledging the prior error). And they added info so readers could find more about the guidelines in Holland themselves. I didn’t see and statement about ethics or principles on the Dutch News site, so I guess they just believe that correcting their mistakes is simply good journalistic practice. I can on…
