…ll be escorted out of the emergency room or even arrested.” ” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-region/politics/2023/03/08/advocates-want-medicaid-cuts-to-home-care-eligibility-blocked-in-budget# “Anita Cameron, of Rochester, is visually impaired, and has issues related to autism and diabetes. The 57-year-old currently qualifies for home care under the state’s Medicaid rules because she needs help with medications, house cleaning and bill…
…y, I tested positive for Huntington’s disease. The nurse who delivered the news hugged me consolingly and left me with my husband and a mug of sweet tea to cry. In the days that followed, I began to realise why so few of the people at risk of inheriting this incurable neurodegenerative disorder chose to find out. This incuriosity had seemed to me irresponsible. Having discovered the previous year that my father had the disease, I had been offer…
…f the bat was how fast Kelly Hills posted the Reuters story on the Vatican ruling to the AJOB Bioethics Blog and the Women’s Bioethics Blog. The Reuters article has a really glaring inaccuracy, which doesn’t get a comment from the “experts” at these two blogs. Remembering that the Vatican ruling clearly is making statements about the treatment of people in PVS, see if you can spot what’s wrong with the closing of the Reuters article: Bioethicists…
I missed this when the news hit yesterday, but things aren’t looking great for the members of the Final Exit Network (FEN). Here’s the gist of the news, from the second paragraph of the story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An indictment returned Tuesday charges the Final Exit Network along with co-founder Thomas “Ted” Goodwin, 64, of Kennesaw and Punta Gorda, Fla.; Claire Blehr, 77, of Atlanta; and Dr. Lawrence Egbert, 82, and Nicholas Al…
…o health care provider was present at the time of ingestion of the lethal drugs or at the time of death. So there is no independent witness to self-administration of the lethal drugs nor to consent at that time. Failure of “Safeguards” Terminal Illness Prognosis Many people are misdiagnosed. “Terminal” predictions are unreliable. Oregon model bills define “terminal” as “incurable” and “irreversible” even if that is based on non-treatment due to la…
