…llnesses for many years. The definition should be made clear. The form instructions on page 6 for item 4 also continue the vague and biased messaging which encourages hasty and uninformed decisions in the context of terminal illness, brain injury, disorders of consciousness and dementia: If you wish to make more specific instructions, you could say: If I become terminally ill, I do/don’t want to receive the following types of treatments…. If I am…
…rs can predict the future and everyone wants the best for you. In the real world, legalized assisted suicide inevitably leads to the tragic deaths of innocent people, through mistakes and abuse. Every year nationally, thousands of people prove doctors wrong by outliving their mistaken terminal diagnosis. Every year in Oregon and Washington, doctors prescribe suicide for people who are not terminally ill. You may have months, years, or decades of l…
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…ST) Form, November 14, 2012, http://www.medsocdel.org/Portals/1/In%20the%20News/MOLST%20Form%20Letter%20111412.pdf [7] POLST: Honoring Patients’ Wishes for Treatment, Part 3: Having the POLST Conversation, University of California Television, Coming of Age Lecture Series, UC Davis Health System Center for Healthy Aging, http://www.medsocdel.org/Portals/1/In%20the%20News/MOLST%20Form%20Letter%20111412.pdf [8] American Medical Association Opinion 2….
…of efforts to challenge the Texas law, including a recent appellate court ruling in another Texas case involving Tinslee Lewis, previously covered in this blog. The new July 24 court ruling has found the dispute resolution provisions in the Texas Advance Directives Act to be sorely lacking in constitutional due process protections, stating that a hospital: “. . . [I]n invoking and following Section 166.046’s committee review process, failed to pr…
