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Quality Of Death People With Terminal Illnesses Are Turning To An Age-Old Method To End It All: Self-Starvation, Kazi E. Awal, Alyssa Pagano Dec 2016

Quality Of Death People With Terminal Illnesses Are Turning To An Age-Old Method To End It All: Self-Starvation, Kazi E. Awal, Alyssa Pagano

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Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) is getting more attention in the medical community. Though physician assisted dying legislation passed in two more states in 2016--there are now 7 states where it is legal--the practice, where doctors prescribe a lethal dose of sedatives so that terminally ill patients can end their own lives, is inaccessible to many. But fasting to death is a way for patients suffering from terminal illnesses or other debilitating diseases to end their lives on their own terms that is legal everywhere. As extreme as it sounds, research shows the process can be made comfortable with …


Case No. 9 - Death Following Iatrogenic Bowel Perforation After Endoscopic G.I. Procedures, New York Law School Jan 2016

Case No. 9 - Death Following Iatrogenic Bowel Perforation After Endoscopic G.I. Procedures, New York Law School

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Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Case - Death following Iatrogenic Bowel Perforation after Endoscopic G.I. Procedures


Case No. 25 - Death Of A 25 Year Old Woman In A Hospital’S Micu With Sepsis And Septic Shock, New York Law School Jan 2016

Case No. 25 - Death Of A 25 Year Old Woman In A Hospital’S Micu With Sepsis And Septic Shock, New York Law School

Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Cases

Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Case - Death of a 25 year old Woman in a Hospital’s MICU with Sepsis and Septic Shock


Case No. 18 - Death Following A Failure To Diagnose An Acute Myocardial Infarction, New York Law School Jan 2016

Case No. 18 - Death Following A Failure To Diagnose An Acute Myocardial Infarction, New York Law School

Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Cases

Anonymous Closed Medical Liability Case - Death Following a Failure to Diagnose an Acute Myocardial Infarction