Physician Assisted Suicide - A Different Approach More requests for physician-assisted suicide are not due to present suffering. Steps must ...

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A 60-year-old homeless man, “Jesse,” is found confused and in distress by a passerby who calls 911. Paramedics bring the ...

"Joe" is a 62-year-old building contractor who has been in an ICU for the past 10 weeks. He had gone ...

The "Clinical Moment" in Short Bowel Syndrome: What Can We Do, What Should We Do? ...

Pat B. had never talked with her father about dying. Even when he was older and had remarried after her ...

A thirty-year-old accident victim suffered lack of oxygen to her brain for six to twenty minutes. She was in a ...

In early 2012, at age 85, Dr. Rosemary Flanigan suffered and survived a heart attack. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Flanigan ...