by APFLI | Aug 1, 2011 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The Link Between the Euthanasia Society of America and the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization is indisputably the successor organization of the Euthanasia Society of America. A new...
by APFLI | Apr 9, 2009 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
For the past two decades, euthanasia/assisted-suicide ideologues have worked overtime to conflate palliative care—the medical alleviation of pain and other distressing symptoms of serious illness—with intentionally ending the life of the patient. The...
by APFLI | Nov 17, 2008 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Comment: It’s truly mystifying that this media outlet can publish an article like this clearly highlighting one of the problems of government-funded healthcare in another country, but refuse to see what is coming down the pike for Americans if...
by APFLI | Apr 16, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
A new study finds that, when cancer patients are given appropriate doses of morphine to relieve severe pain, the treatment doesn't lead to the shortening of their lives. The finding is an important refutation of the argument euthanasia proponents make that pain...
by APFLI | Apr 16, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
1. Palliative Care and Organ Donation http://www.pallimed.org/2006/03/terminal-patients-in-icu-and-organ.html Monday, March 20, 2006 Terminal patients in the ICU and organ donation In my job as a palliative medicine doctor, I am frequently talking with patients and...
