Some Hospice Care Providers Enforcing State-Sanctioned Euthanasia Through IL Probate Courts
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Letter to the Editor by "G" EDITOR'S NOTE: In 2008, RFFM.org ran a series of columns dealing with end of life issues, including the dangers presented by living wills and information regarding how some hospice care providers are hastening deaths of the elderly. RFFM.org has received numerous firsthand accounts which confirm the information offered in the series and the following letter to RFFM.org illustrates how the state may be complicit in the euthanasia of the aged with the assistance of Illinois courts. This situation may also be occurring outside of Illinois as well. It is a must read for senior...
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:10:40 PM
Weighing Medical Costs of End-of-Life Care (Money, Death Panels and The Duty to Die)
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The Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center, one of the nation’s most highly regarded academic hospitals, has earned a reputation as a place where doctors will go to virtually any length and expense to try to save a patient’s life. “If you come into this hospital, we’re not going to let you die,” said Dr. David T. Feinberg, the hospital system’s chief executive. Yet that ethos has made the medical center a prime target for critics in the Obama administration and elsewhere who talk about how much money the nation wastes on needless tests and futile procedures. They like to note...
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:10:40 PM
DEA crackdown hurts nursing home residents who need pain drugs
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Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication, according to two Senate Democrats and a coalition of pharmacists and geriatric experts.
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:10:40 PM
Bioethics — Tough questions for us all to consider
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After World War II, the U.S. government invested an enormous amount of money in medicine; medical research, medical procedures and medical technologies. This investment made contemporary scientific medicine into American medicine, characterized by a continuing flow of new treatment possibilities. These advances raised all kinds of ethical questions. Some were personal and individual, others were social and political. Both type questions are addressed by a new academic discipline called bioethics. The first attempt to develop a scientific medicine took place in Greece in the 5th century B.C. It was called Hippocratic medicine. Closely linked with this first scientific medicine was...
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:10:40 PM
Nuggets of Truth In ‘Death Panel’ Rhetoric (Palin Derangement Syndrome yet he admits she's right!)
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When former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin introduced “death panels” to the health care overhaul debate vernacular via Facebook in early August, she showed herself to be a brilliant idiot. Technically, Palin’s claim of a panel of “downright evil” government bureaucrats rationing health care based on Americans’ “level of productivity” is obviously idiotic. There is not, and never will be, some mythical jack-booted panel of government pinheads, rubber stamps in hand, deciding who shall live and who shall die. As such, Palin was deservedly roasted. Tactically, however, Palin’s move was pure brilliance: in but a few keystrokes she synthesized the underlying...
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:10:40 PM
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by Jerry Lewis
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Battle of Lake Champlain American troops score a decisive victory over the British in the War of 1812 (1814)
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