Palliative care offers alternative to medicine's dying approach
A discussion by Jan Magee on palliative care contrasts it with mainstream medical death. Ira Byock criticizes physician assisted death, urging patient autonomy, dignity, and symptom control. Emphasizing comfort, psychosocial and spiritual support, the piece argues for care focused on quality of life until last breath and urges clinicians to voice lessons learned from patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Kevorkian
Sherwin Nuland
Ira Byock
Montana
National Hospice Organization
United States
Doctor Operates On Healthy Brain Part In Error
New York AP report says Nese Ayyappan traveled from India for brain tumor removal at Memorial Sloan Kettering. A neurosurgeon mistook another patient’s films and opened the healthy right temporal lobe, prompting a second operation and an apology as investigators review the case.
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EW York
Nese Ayyappan
India
Sridevi
Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center
New Xe Ihese
Ayyaeppan Heeren
Joseph Simone
Sloan Kettering
Ayyappan
New York Hospital
Sloan-Kettering
State Health Department
Bill Fagel
Qour
Simone
Westerman
Nurse earns diabetes educator certification at Ransom Memorial
Faye Rubick, a registered nurse at Ransom Memorial Hospital, has become a certified diabetes educator after passing an April exam. The certification by the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators follows the 1986 program begun by the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Rubick plans to expand diabetes education, covering physiology, non pharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies, monitoring, complications, and psychosocial factors.
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National Certification Board For Diabetes Educators
Faye Rubick
Ransom Memorial Hospital
American Association of Diabetes Educators
Rubick
Congress unimpressed by FDA additives plan
Lawmakers told FDA officials the plan to speed safety reviews for food additives is still unlawful and backlog ridden. They urged reform or moving oversight to Agriculture, noting petitions dating to the 1970s and a 24 year wait on sodium nitrite in whitefish.
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Congress
FDA
TSNAM
Food and Drug Administration
Edolphus Towns
D-N.y
Agriculture
David McIntosh
R-Ind
U.S
Linda Suydam
House
Educated people healthier as well
The report shows death rates 30 percent higher for adults 25 to 64 who did not finish high school, versus high school graduates, and substantially lower for those with college exposure. Women's smoking during pregnancy is higher among dropouts, and infant mortality hit a record low of 8.5 per 1000 in 1992 with likely further improvement in 1993.
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Ashington
National Center For Health Statistics
Philip R. Lee
The
Publi Health Service
Lee
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Sth & Main
Ottawa Medical Specialists
P.A. General Medicine
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