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Competent care for the dying instead of physician-assisted suicide.
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While the Supreme Court is reviewing the decisions by the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals to reverse state bans on assisted suicide, there is a unique opportunity to engage the public in the debate over assisted suicide.Abstract:
While the Supreme Court is reviewing the decisions by the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals to reverse state bans on assisted suicide, there is a unique opportunity to engage the public, h...read more
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Depression, hopelessness, and desire for hastened death in terminally ill patients with cancer.
William Breitbart,Barry Rosenfeld,Hayley Pessin,Monique Kaim,Julie Funesti-Esch,Michele Galietta,Christian J. Nelson,Robert Brescia +7 more
TL;DR: Depression and hopelessness are the strongest predictors of desire for hastened death in this population of terminally ill cancer patients and provide independent and unique contributions.
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Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
TL;DR: Marijuana and Medicine addresses the science base and the therapeutic effects of marijuana use for medical conditions such as glaucoma and multiple sclerosis and evaluates how well marijuana meets accepted standards for medicine and considers the conclusions of other blue-ribbon panels.
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The social communication model of pain.
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that a formulation of pain that explicitly focuses upon social factors would more readily address human needs than models that focus upon biophysical and/or psychological factors alone (intrapersonal processes).
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Physicians' Experiences with the Oregon Death with Dignity Act
Linda Ganzini,Heidi D. Nelson,Terri A. Schmidt,Dale F. Kraemer,Molly A. Delorit,Melinda A. Lee +5 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that in Oregon, physicians grant about 1 in 6 requests for a prescription for a lethal medication and that 1 in 10 requests actually result in suicide.
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Palliative Care in Undergraduate Medical Education: Status Report and Future Directions
TL;DR: The increasing attention to palliative care education has created major opportunities for improving education about care at the end of life, and educational programs should be rigorously evaluated to identify best educational practices.
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A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients: The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT)
Alfred F. Connors,Neal V. Dawson,N. A. Desbiens,William J. Fulkerson,Lee Goldman,William A. Knaus,Joanne Lynn,R. K. Oye,M. Bergner,Ann M. Damiano,R. Hakim,D. J. Murphy,J. Teno,B. Virnig,Douglas P. Wagner,A. W. Wu,Y. Yasui,D. K. Robinson,B. Kreling +18 more
TL;DR: A 2-year prospective observational study (phase I) with 4301 patients followed by a two-year controlled clinical trial (phase II) with 4804 patients and their physicians randomized by specialty group to the intervention group or control group (n=2652).
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The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine.
TL;DR: In this article, a distinction based on clinical observations is made between suffering and physical distress, and a description of the nature and causes of suffering in patients undergoing medical treatment is given.
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Pain and its treatment in outpatients with metastatic cancer.
Charles S. Cleeland,René Gonin,Alan K. Hatfield,John H. Edmonson,Ronald H. Blum,James A. Stewart,Kishan J. Pandya +6 more
TL;DR: The adequacy of prescribed analgesic drugs using guidelines developed by the World Health Organization was assessed, the factors that influenced whether analgesia was adequate were studied, and the effects of inadequate analgesia on the patients' perception of pain relief and functional status were determined.
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
Geoffrey Hanks,Nathan I. Cherny,Nicholas A. Christakis,Marie Fallon,Stein Kaasa,Russell K. Portenoy +5 more
TL;DR: The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine 4Ed - Libros de Medicina - Oncologia general - 95,00 as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on cancer.
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Physician attitudes and practice in cancer pain management: A survey from the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
TL;DR: The knowledge about cancer pain and its treatment among physicians practicing in ECOG-affiliated institutions was determined to determine the methods of pain control being used by these physicians and to compare physician knowledge of and attitudes toward cancerPain with the results of a study of cancer pain.