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Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network
「人與醫學」課程醫學生緩和醫療認知之介入性研究, 皓翔 張, 文郁 胡, 泰源 邱, 建安 姚, 碧鴻 呂, 慶餘 陳
「人與醫學」課程醫學生緩和醫療認知之介入性研究, 皓翔 張, 文郁 胡, 泰源 邱, 建安 姚, 碧鴻 呂, 慶餘 陳
Journal of Medical Education
Palliative care is an important and emerging medical specialty in the area of end-of-life care. Almost all physicians are required to take care of a terminally ill patient at some point in their care, but previous studies from around the world have identified inadequate palliative care training for both medical students and general practitioners. The objectives of this study were to understand junior medical student knowledge of palliative care and how it improved after a one week training course. The study, a quasi-experimental design, recruited eighty medical students between 2001 and 2003 participating in a one-week course named “The human …
Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network
Escape From New York: Analyzing The State's Relative Interests In Proscribing The Withdrawal Of Life Support And Physician-Assisted Suicide, Colin Miller
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Note argues that states cannot consistently prohibit physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients while they continue to allow the withdrawal of life support for even non-terminal patients. All of the state interests identified by the Supreme Court in rejecting a right to assisted suicide are implicated to a higher degree by withdrawal of life support. The primary reason for this difference is that withdrawal of life support often involves incompetent patients and surrogate decision making while assisted suicide by definition requires a competent patient choosing to hasten her death
Escape From New York: Analyzing The State's Relative Interests In Proscribing The Withdrawal Of Life Support And Physician-Assisted Suicide, Colin Miller
Faculty Publications
This Note argues that states cannot consistently prohibit physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients while they continue to allow the withdrawal of life support for even non-terminal patients. All of the state interests identified by the Supreme Court in rejecting a right to assisted suicide are implicated to a higher degree by withdrawal of life support. The primary reason for this difference is that withdrawal of life support often involves incompetent patients and surrogate decision making while assisted suicide by definition requires a competent patient choosing to hasten her death.