View Table of Contents for Update 65: Volume 27, Number 1 (2013)
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Update 65: Volume 27, Number 1–Year 2013, Number 1 (View as PDF)
Belgian doctors take legal euthanasia practice to new lows, without sanctions
An elastic law
Twin brothers euthanized
More evidence of the slippery slope
Eleven states targeted for legal doctor-assisted suicide in 2013
Vermont
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maryland & California
New Hampshire & Kansas
Hawaii
Montana & New Mexico
Oregon’s 2012 assisted-suicide report: more deaths & unknowns
Refusal of basic care
Not an isolated case
Medical treatment or basic care
Necessity of principles and policies
Some hospice policies present obstacles for patients
AMA issues policy on “divided loyalty”
Study identifies common elder abuse injuries
News briefs from home & abroad
Oregon
Quebec
Great Britain
Japan
Update 66: Volume 27, Number 2–Year 2013, Number 2 (View as PDF)
Care or suicide? It’s all available at Washington’s “full service” cancer center
Death with Dignity Program
SCCA’s statistics
State legislatures deal with doctor-assisted suicide measures
Connecticut
Montana
Vermont
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Kansas
Hawaii
New developments in Minnesota’s case against the Final Exit Network
Texas Struggles with Its Futile Care Beast by Wesley J. Smith
Study finds diagnostic errors common in primary care
Researchers develop test to see if older patients will be alive in 10 years
Social isolation is deadly for older men & women
Bioethicist says donor’s death is insignificant in harvesting organs
