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A Ravenna company is announcing a new invention and service that will provide essential medical and legal information to medical providers at the touch of a button.
My Life Plan Inc. has invented a new way to initiate advanced directives such as living wills, power of attorney, organ donations, medical history and other information.
Ruth Skocic of Garrettsville, one of the company's owners, said she used to be a social service coordinator at a nursing facility. Skocic said she became concerned how patients without guardians or advance directives can have problems with emergency medical intervention.
"I just saw the need. It was very hard for me to watch people suffer unnecessarily, and know that there had to be a better way." Skocic said.
Then came the Terri Schiavo case, in which the husband and parents of a comatose patient ended up in a bitter legal battle over what the patient wanted in the way of extreme medical intervention.
Skocic said the situation pushed her to come up with a better solution.
Life Plan improves access to living will
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Any nurse can walk into a bad situation. The one Luanne Linnard-Palmer can't forget came as she readied a little boy for a blood transfusion only to be told by his mother "You know you're damning his soul to hell!"
The child's mother was a Jehovah's Witness, a faith that rejects blood transfusions. Her son had sickle cell anemia and had become extremely weak.
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When faith and medicine collide
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Oh, swell, automated mercy killing. They should call it "Electronic Nazi."