Tag Archives: Barbara Coombs Lee
URGENT: Witness Slips in Opposition to Assisted Suicide Needed
State Representative Robyn Gabel (D-Chicago) and some of her colleagues are advocating for legislation that would permit physicians to prescribe lethal drugs for suicide. This proposal directly challenges the core medical tenet of "First, do no harm," and its passage would mark a deeply concerning ethical departure for Illinois, shifting the focus from health care to death care.
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Tagged A Better Exit, Barbara Coombs Lee, Beatrix UMCG Children's Hospital, Compassion and Choices, Damian Denys, Eduard Verhagen, euthanasia, J.M. Sorrell, Massachusetts Death with Dignity, Netherlands, Not Dead Yet, physician-assisted suicide, Robyn Gabel, Thaddeus Pope, University of Amsterdam
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When Palliative Care Goes Horribly Wrong
As I have written before, I was almost fired for refusing to increase a morphine drip “until he stops breathing” on a patient who continued to breathe after his ventilator was removed. The doctors mistakenly presumed he had a massive stroke and thus was irreparably brain-damaged. I was told at that time that giving and increasing the morphine even though the patient showed no discomfort was merely “comfort care” that would “prevent pain”. I knew it was euthanasia.
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Tagged Assisted Suicide, Barbara Coombs Lee, Compassion & Choices, Compassion and Choices, Dame Cicely Saunders, euthanasia, law, medical ethics, palliative care, Sophie Druenne, The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act
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