End-of-Life forum to be presented at SPC Seminole Campus
Here is some of the handiwork not of Dr. Josef Mengele of Hitler's Germany, but happening right in Florida right in Greer country now.
This is an abstract of an experiment performed on humans by David A. Weiland, MD and others. All of the subjects of the experiment had a multitude of adverse reactions. The experimenters wrote it off as an allergic reaction.
Hana Osman, Ph. D. biography. Her primary specialty is getting people to sign away their right to life. Her secondary specialty is experimenting on them.
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Living wills, anyone??
PHILADELPHIA - After three decades of urging Americans to write living wills, many doctors, lawyers and ethicists concede that these documents have largely failed.
The problems are many: Most people don't complete living wills. When they do, too often the paper isn't available when decisions about life support must be made.
Living wills, intended to assure that patients' wishes are honored when they can't speak for themselves, rarely address the actual situations that arise. And many people don't really know in advance what treatments they would or wouldn't want.
"The 30 years of literature on living wills has shown very disappointing results," said Charles Sabatino, assistant director of the American Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging. "The shortcomings of living wills are real. Dying is just too complicated."
A blistering indictment of living wills appeared last year in the Hastings Center Report, a well-known bioethics journal.
It began: "Enough. The living will has failed and it's time to say so."
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"Our role as attorneys is to help explain so people understand they have options," McCarthy said.
"In my opinion, taking care of this is a very nice gift to give to your family," McCarthy said. "If your family knows what you want, it makes something very hard a little easier."
Today, ethics committee members will be available to answer questions about the right to privacy. Sessions will be held from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. at GPRMC. Thursday, the topic will be patient rights, and at three 3 p.m. there will be a presentation on topics related to ethics in health care.
Your right not to remain silent
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What the heck is eosinophilia? It sounds like these people volunteered to be guinea pigs to test a new drug. Hope they got paid a lot of money.
Dr. Osman sounds like a little ray of sunshine. Imagine the conversation at the dinner table when she's there. What ever you do, don't choke on your food around her.