by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Quebec Law in 2014 Requires All Hospitals, Nursing Homes to Offer Euthanasia Late last week, a radical new euthanasia bill passed into law by a free vote in the National Assembly in Quebec…...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Physicians, nationally and internationally, are reaffirming their individual and collective opposition to both euthanasia and assisted suicide NEJM Poll A recent survey of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) readers on the issue of doctor-prescribed suicide...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Use and Abuse of POLST Forms Expands “Physician’s Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment” (POLST) forms were designed as a tool for end-of-life planning. More simple in concept than an advance health care directive, durable power of attorney for health care, or living...