Tag: palliative care
A Physician’s Sacred Duty — To Care or to Kill?
As a hospice and palliative care physician for over twenty years, Dr. Howard Glicksman regularly cares for terminally ill patients.
Now Doctors to Help Younger People Commit Suicide by Self-Starvation
Of course, we in the U.S. have our own such issues, even beyond pernicious VSED advocacy.
More Americans Now Die at Home than in Hospitals
This trend is beneficial. But more needs to be done.
A Trojan Horse for Euthanasia? No
When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the sharp bodily decline that hits those in their late 90s, my wife and I brought her home for care.
Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”
The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads.