…eople with disabilities and older adults. This bill will create a National Commission on Disability Rights and Disasters, including Department Of Justice involvement and oversight Committee to review all ADA settlement agreements related to disaster response activities for the years 2005-2017 and to also direct the Government Accountability Office to investigate whether past federal funds have been used to ensure accessibility to emergency program…
…g. The gentleman called me the next week to say that the whole tune of the committee changed when they brought an outside advocate in. (I think my remark was that “ethics committees are like vampires – they don’t like the light.”) The author states that “end-of-life cases can also be stressful for doctors,” and yet is followed by something very different shortly after in a discussion of one legislator’s efforts to get the current 10-day limit (tre…
…, Aging and Independent Living has a history of being unable to respond to complaints of abuse in a timely manner, as well as the fact that the Governor, Attorney General and the Commissioner of Health all strongly advocated for physician-assisted suicide despite the known risks it poses, Mahoney thinks it is important for Vermonters to have a place to turn for help. “We now have state-sanctioned suicide in Vermont. If the State won’t protect Verm…
…s will have in it. Will my patients be able to trust my judgment and their best interests knowing that I could become their judge, jury and executioner all in one? What will the repercussions be on our ability to truly care for our sickest patients if I as a professional, trained in a healing profession, look at someone in desperate need and say with my words and actions, ‘your life may not be worth living’? It is far better for the patient and th…
…s will have in it. Will my patients be able to trust my judgment and their best interests knowing that I could become their judge, jury and executioner all in one? What will the repercussions be on our ability to truly care for our sickest patients if I as a professional, trained in a healing profession, look at someone in desperate need and say with my words and actions, ‘your life may not be worth living’? It is far better for the patient and th…
