Health Disparities and Medical Abuse: Why Blacks Shouldn’t Support Assisted Suicide

…assisted suicide. Compassion and Choices hires middle class Black staff to come into our communities to spread the lie about assisted suicide because they know that we’re more likely to listen if information comes from someone who looks like us. As a result, some middle class and wealthy Blacks are falling for this farce. As assisted suicide becomes normalized, racial disparities in healthcare will mean that Black patients will be more likely to b…

Art Caplan “Debunks” 23-year Misdiagnosis of PVS in Belgium, But Omits Some Details

…elephone interview. “Slowly he got better and developed through a language computer and now communicates with this speech therapist holding his hand.” Got that? He initially used an independent yes/no response with a foot device. As to the reliability of the communication in this instance? They tested: Laureys’ team showed Houben an object while his aide was taken outside, and when she came back in he was able to write it down correctly, said Prof…

Diane Coleman’s Plenary Remarks at Adv. Care Planning and ‘End of Life’ Conference on May 31

…ors always meant well and thought they had been doing the right thing. The common thread running through Terrie’s story and too many others we hear about in the disability community is that our lives with disability are seen as less worth living, so much less that health care providers too often think death is the correct course. They press this viewpoint on us, our families and sometimes even overrule us when we disagree. I call the Disability Pe…

Diane Coleman’s Plenary Remarks at Adv. Care Planning and ‘End of Life’ Conference on May 31

…ors always meant well and thought they had been doing the right thing. The common thread running through Terrie’s story and too many others we hear about in the disability community is that our lives with disability are seen as less worth living, so much less that health care providers too often think death is the correct course. They press this viewpoint on us, our families and sometimes even overrule us when we disagree. I call the Disability Pe…

Attorney Anne Studholme on New Jersey “Dom Time” Show Opposite NY C&C Director David Leven

…. Both guests admitted that the six-month prediction of terminality is not reliable. In the third and shortest segment, Giordano alluded to the uncertainties of medical information and expressed concern about the risk of a snap decision. Leven replied that there is a two-week process, as though that is a sufficient time to consider such an irreversible decision. (These days, how many of us can get an appointment with a specialist for a second opin…