…n of factors. In her case, it resulted in a very scary brush with a potentially lethal set of avoidable complications in the hospital: PHYSICIANS ARE APPROXIMATELY 9.000 TIMES MORE DANGEROUS THAN GUN OWNERS. Statistical proof: There are 80 million gun owners in the U.S., and 1,500 accidental gun deaths per year. There are 700,000 physicians in the U.S. who cause 120,000 accidental deaths each year. It looks to this mathematician like doctors are a…
…W.W. Norton). He was the lead physician plaintiff in the New York State legal case challenging the law prohibiting physician aid in dying—Quill v. Vacco. This also means that two out of the four sources used for this article are essentially both representatives of Death With Dignity National Center. As I mentioned before, Quill is often described this way in assisted suicide articles and it is dishonest. In an article about assisted suicide, someo…
…the increasing cost of health care in an aging society, because in the final analysis, economics, not the quest for broadened individual liberties or increased autonomy, will drive assisted suicide to the plateau of acceptable practice. As technology advances, as medical costs skyrocket out of control, as chronic diseases predominate, as the projected rate of the eighty-five-and-older population accelerates, as managed care seeks to cut costs and…
…le they were depressed,” says Cohen, a former editor of the Journal of Mental Health and Aging. “The questions I would want answered in this situation: Were they getting the right help in dealing with depression? When men caregivers perceive there is nothing else they can do, [depression] could precipitate this act.” We always wish there was more of our side represented in any coverage of these issues, but if more reporters exercised due diligence…
…950s, Kevorkian advocated letting death row inmates become subjects to lethal medical experiments under anesthesia. In the mid-1970s, he switched gears and started advocating organ donation for death row prisoners under general anesthesia. All anyone needs to do to confirm this is to check the Amazon listing for Kevorkian’s “Prescription: Medicide,” published in 1991: (From the 1991 Publishers Weekly review on the Amazon page linked above) Kevorki…
