Posted on 08/24/2009 8:20:06 AM PDT by Yosemitest
Obama Revives VA Death Book August 21, 2009
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RUSH: Now, folks, Obama says there aren't death panels.
He pooh-poohs the notion that there aren't death panels here.
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report.
HotAir: WSJ: VA Pushes Vets to Consider Death as an Alternative to Treatment
Sweetness & Light: What The Health Care Bill Actually Says
Washington Post: Behind the Rage, a Cold Reality - Eugene Robinson
Washington Post: Undue Influence The House Bill Skews End-of-Life Counsel - Charles Lane
To: Bahbah; All
Robert Pearlman, MD - author of: Your Life Your Choices
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Robert Pearlman, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine (as well as Health Services, and Medical History and Ethics) at the University of Washington.
He attended Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Emory University and the University of Washington.
He received post-residency training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, a Fellow in the Ethics and the Professions Program at Harvard University, and a Faculty Scholar in the Project on Death in America.
He joined the Center in the summer of 2000. His interests and expertise pertain to empirical research in clinical ethics (especially end-of-life care) and organizational ethics.
His research has explored euthanasia, the role of quality of life in decision-making, the validity of life-sustaining treatment preferences, medical futility, advance care planning, physician-assisted suicide, and relief of patient suffering.
He is the author of two books and over 100 publications in medical journals and book chapters.
His most recent book, entitled Your Life, Your Choices, is an interactive workbook to help patients and family members with advance care planning.
(NOTE THAT IT WASNT INITIALLY DIRECTED TO MILITARY VETS.. this is likely their trial balloon - IMO)
Your Life, Your Choices will be available to veterans through MyHealtheVet in 2007.
He has mentored many junior faculty throughout the United States in the technique of combining empirical research methods and ethics.
http://www.ethics.va.gov/about/staff/pearlman.asp
269 posted on Sunday, August 23, 2009 10:56:17 AM by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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Hi. Death book author Perlman’s association with RW Johnson foundation is a red flag to me. Robert Woods Johnson foundation is non-profit arm of SC Johnson Corp.—the prohibition corporation.
Anyone can read more about leftist foundation here:
http://www.alcoholfacts.org/RWJfoundation.html
author, Dr. Hanson of Potsdam University, NY.
Might help.
Might not.
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