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The Science, Law, And Politics Of Fetal Pain Legislation, Kevin C. Walsh
The Science, Law, And Politics Of Fetal Pain Legislation, Kevin C. Walsh
Scholarly Articles
Most people prefer not to inflict gratuitous pain on other sentient beings, especially other humans. What, then, should be the legal system's reaction to the mounting evidence that in late-term abortions doctors are inflicting just such pain on fetuses who have the anatomical, physiological, and neurological capacity to experience it? The pain being inflicted is gratuitous because it can be easily avoided with no significant increases in cost or health risk by the administration of tar geted fetal pain relief. If informed that an abortion is likely to cause pain to the fetus and given a choice between a procedure …
The Legal Bounds Of Physician Conduct Hastening Death, Norman L. Cantor, George C. Thomas Iii
The Legal Bounds Of Physician Conduct Hastening Death, Norman L. Cantor, George C. Thomas Iii
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Hospice At The Crossroads: Can It Survive?, David A. Simpson
Hospice At The Crossroads: Can It Survive?, David A. Simpson
Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
No abstract provided.
A Proposal To Recognize A Legal Obligation On Physicians To Provide Adequate Medication To Alleviate Pain, Tonya Eippert
A Proposal To Recognize A Legal Obligation On Physicians To Provide Adequate Medication To Alleviate Pain, Tonya Eippert
Journal of Law and Health
This note seeks to show how the current practice among medical practitioners in the United States, by treating pain retroactively after it begins, is inadequate. Administering narcotics to patients on an "as needed" basis unnecessarily prolongs pain and suffering. A more effective approach, which is advocated by the Agency for Health Care Policy & Research (AHCPR), is to treat pain preventatively rather than retroactively. The myth that pain medication is addictive, and that physicians should therefore prescribe as little pain medication as possible, is just that, a myth. Patients are suffering pain in today's hospitals and at home unnecessarily. Given …