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You Have the Right to Protect Yourself amp; Those You Love...
If you or someone you love can't make medical
decisions either temporarily or permanently, who
will make those decisions? The only way to
make sure that your decisions are honored is to name
someone you know and trust -- a person who
shares your views and values and who can be
assertive on your behalf -- in a carefully written durable power of
attorney for health care. The ITF will provide such a document for you without charge.
It's called the
Protective Medical Decisions Document.
You Have the Right to Needed Pain Control ...
What can be done when you're in pain? Where
can you turn? How do you find help?
The ITF can provide you with the tools you need to
get the help you need. The book,
Power over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You
Need explains how to find a doctor, how
to describe your pain, and much, much more.
Recent Developments...
WA State Announces Elimination of Funding for Hospice Care:
Less than two years after Washington State voters legalized
doctor-prescribed suicide, the state announced that hospice services
would no longer be funded for terminally ill patients who are on
Medicaid. According to a press release announcing the decision, the
action would save $4.6 million. The cost in pain and suffering for
patients was not calculated by those making the decision to deny
hospice services for the poorest Washingtonians. Press
release announcing funding cuts More on
Washington.
HEALTH CARE LAW - Advance care planning is
back:
Prior to passage of what is now known as
ObamaCare, a provision that would have included
quot;advance care planning quot; led many opponents of the
bill to call such planning a step toward quot;death
panels. quot; The provision was dropped before the
bill passed. However, in November 2010, the
provision has now been put back into ObamaCare
through the rulemaking process.
The Center for Medicare and
Medicaid services pre-posted the more than 2000
pages of the final rule related to physician
payment. According to the rule, Medicare
patients are to be offered advance care planning at
their quot;first annual wellness visit quot; and at each
quot;subsequent annual wellness visit. quot; (See pp.
766-767; 1488-1494 of the Dept. of Health and Human
Services,
quot;Medicare Program: Payment under the Physician Fee
Schedule and Other
Revisions to Part B for CY 2011. quot;)
More on Health Care Law.
OR
Suicide rate in state far higher than national average:
(Oregon Health Authority
press release -- 9/10)
According to the full report on
quot;Suicides in Oregon quot;, statistics do not include assisted-suicide
deaths: quot;Deaths relating to the Death with Dignity Act
(physician-assisted suicides) are not classified as suicides by
Oregon law and are therefore excluded from this report. quot; (Report, p.
6)
More on
Oregon.
News and Views...mm
quot;Murder in Your Hospital quot;
( MedPage Today - - November 15, 2010 )
Dr. George Lundberg, former editor of the Journal of the American
Medical Association, writes: quot;Since 1975, at least 35 American
healthcare workers have been formally charged with serial murder of
patients, marking healthcare workers as an overrepresented
occupational group among known serial killers...Physicians, of
course, occupy the uniquely powerful position of enjoying the total
trust of patients and their families, easy access to lethal drugs
and devices, and the unquestioned authority to sign death
certificates. quot;
quot;I support the right to die -- but please...after you! quot;
( Providence Journal - - October 26, 2010 )
Imagine Emma Sue Schroeder, an 83-year-old terminal cancer patient,
who has been told that she has approximately four months to live.
She wants to die right away. Now imagine Emma Sue's daughter,
Rachel. Forty-five and healthy. Rachel wants her doctor to prescribe
lethal pills for her. Should it be legal for him or her to do this.
SWITZERLAND:
quot;Let the distraught partners of terminally ill who commit suicide
die too, says Dignitas boss quot;
( Daily Mail - - October 19, 2010 )
Ludwig Minelli, the founder of the controversial Swiss clinic
Dignitas, has said a person whose terminally ill partner commits
suicide should also be given help to die - even if perfectly
healthy. It is not the first time Minelli has argued health people
should be given the legal right to die. Last year he said that he
believed assisted suicide should be available 'on demand.'
More
on Switzerland.
ENGLAND:
quot;Warnings over assisted suicide legislation plan quot;
( Morning Star - - October 12, 2010 )
Calls for legislation to allow assisted suicide could put pressure
on vulnerable patients to consider suicide. The warning was issued
on the eve of the launch of Healthcare Professionals for Change (HPC)
founded by Dr. Ann McPherson.
quot;Former GP calls for the right to die quot;
( The Oxford Times - - October 11, 2010 )
Dr. Ann McPherson has set up a group of 12 health professionals to lobby
for a change in the UK's law on assisted suicide. McPherson said she
wants to have the choice available quot;when I feel I am becoming a
burden. quot;
quot;Outrage as agony aunt tells TV audience 'I would suffocate a child
to end its suffering' quot;
( Daily Mail - - October 4, 2010 )
Television pundit Virginia Ironside shocked BBC viewers when she
said she would hold a pillow over the face of a child in pain. She
claimed that quot;any good mother quot; would do so.
Ironside is not alone in her promotion of infanticide.
Princeton University Professor Peter Singer has also advocated
pediatric
euthanasia.
More News Articles
Important...
Reported
PAS Deaths in OR amp; WA
(April 2010) a
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Public health, populations and lethal ingestion quot;
( Disability and Health Journal - - January , 2010 )
Public health should address institutionalized violations of data integrity and
patient vulnerabilities, while rescinding policy supporting the
institutionalization of lethal means. More
quot;Assisted suicide laws create discriminatory double standard quot;
( Disability and Health Journal - January , 2010 )
Double standard for who gets suicide prevention and who gets suicide
assistance. More
quot;No, we don't think our doctors are out to get us quot;
( Disability and Health Journal - January , 2010 )
Responding to the straw man distortions of disability rights arguments against
assisted suicide. More
quot;Killing us softly quot;
( Disability and Health Journal - January, 2010 )
Impact of legalized assisted suicide on people with disabilities and the broader
public. More
quot;Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective quot;
( Michigan Law Review, Vol. 106 - June 8, 2008 )
While previous articles have examined assisted suicide from legal and ethical
perspectives, this article examines the Oregon law from a medical perspective. More
quot;Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide amp; Health Care Decisions:
Protecting Yourself Your Family. quot;font
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Part 1: Detailed and extensively
documented report about
the latest in attempts to legalize assisted suicide and
euthanasia, along with tips for addressing these topics.
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Part 2: Facts and practical information about
advance
directives including the difference between the Living Will
and the
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