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Terminally Ill Cancer Patient Survives Doctor-Assisted Suicide Attempt in Oregon
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| March 4, 2005
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The Associated Press
Posted on 03/04/2005 12:28:13 PM PST by aculeus
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:28:14 PM PST
by
aculeus
To: Pharmboy
What we need is a double-blind test for the efficacy of suicide pills.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:29:12 PM PST
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: aculeus
First case of malpractice coming up where the patient was supposed to die and didn't.
To: aculeus
Now he can get rich by suing the incompetent doctor for malpractice.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:29:33 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Semper Paratus
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:29:57 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Now he can get rich by suing the incompetent doctor for malpractice.Problem: he is dead.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:31:14 PM PST
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: aculeus
John Edwards assures me that this will not hamper the lawsuit in anyway.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:32:28 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: aculeus
It would be interesting to hear what the man had to say when he woke up.
Actually, I believe it is quite common for doctors to put patients on a morphine drip to suppress their breathing and speed dieing. I've seen it done in both cancer and stroke victims and was told by the doctor that was the purpose.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:34:04 PM PST
by
Eva
To: Eva
Another Wrongful Life suit.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:35:20 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(massgopguy)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:35:25 PM PST
by
RushCrush
(I like America to some extent. -Michael Moore)
To: aculeus
"The therapy was a success, but and the patient died.""
To: aculeus
A dose is considered lethal if half the people who receive it die. A fatal dose is some multiple and apparently some people can even tolerate a supposed fatal dose.
To: aculeus
So what was the problem with merely waiting 17 days for the guy to die naturally? Why does the doctor stain himself with an attempted murder and total violation of his Hippocratic oath?
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:38:04 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(National Socialist, Transnational Socialist, what's the difference?)
To: aculeus
Patients surviving, we can't have that. I'm surprised they didn't do what they do to babies that survive abortions.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:44:55 PM PST
by
almcbean
To: ClearCase_guy
John Edwards assures me that this will not hamper the lawsuit in anyway.In the light of his superior intellect, I withdraw my objection.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:45:57 PM PST
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: thoughtomator
When it comes to drugs and their administration, I'm not sure that anything is illegal in Oregon. For that matter, I'm not even sure oaths mean anything there either.
To: anniegetyourgun
No-fault divorce pretty much put an end to oaths meaning anything, I guess... so I guess a doctor's oath or an elected official's oath or a judge's oath is pretty much garbage, too.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:49:46 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(National Socialist, Transnational Socialist, what's the difference?)
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To: thoughtomator
Would you want to lay helplessly in bed in a drugged up haze of pain for 17 more days until your body finished giving out on you?
A drawn out "natural" death is a miserable, pathetic experience for everyone involved. I wouldn't let a dog I didn't like suffer like that, let alone a person.
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:54:46 PM PST
by
CGTRWK
To: Eva
You mean not as assisted suicide but just as their treatment, to kill them?
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posted on
03/04/2005 12:55:19 PM PST
by
mlc9852
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