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The Right to Choose

Voices in Bioethics, 2021
Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash ABSTRACT With the increasing legalization of MAiD across the world, the question of whether psychiatric patients with refractory mental illness should have access to this health service is a topic of ethical ...
Laila Knio
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Death with Dignity in Canada

Voices in Bioethics, 2022
Photo by Chris Robert on Unsplash INTRODUCTION If a terminally ill individual suffers from enduring pain and exhausts all other treatment options, upholding death with dignity through medical assistance in dying (MAID) is how physicians can ...
Anna Vargo
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The power of suggestion

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019
This article examines an ethical controversy that has received relatively little attention in public debates about the legalization of medical aid-in-dying (AID): should physicians inform patients that they have the option of hastening death?
Mara Buchbinder
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Exploring multiple levels of suffering and suicide prevention in an era of emerging national legislations

Frontiers in Public Health
Access to assisted dying (variously called assisted suicide, euthanasia, and medical aid/assistance in dying) is increasingly available in many countries around the world.
Mark Goldblatt, Mark Goldblatt, Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart, Sylvie Lapierre, Sylvie Lapierre, Margda Waern, Margda Waern, Reinhard Lindner   +7 more
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Inaccessibility of care and inequitable conceptions of suffering: a collective response to the construction of “terminal” anorexia nervosa

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023
Informed by our lived experiences with eating disorders, our work providing direct support to communities underserved by existing healthcare structures, and our commitment to social justice, we are deeply troubled by several aspects of the proposed ...
Sam L. Sharpe, Marissa Adams, Emil K. Smith, Bek Urban, Scout Silverstein   +4 more
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Factors Associated With Certainty Regarding Medical Aid in Dying Laws in a National Sample of U.S. Adults [PDF]

Innov Aging
Elissa Kozlov, Samuel Nemeth, Elizabeth A. Luth   +2 more
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Workload Analysis Using Cardiovascular Load and NASA-TLX Method Of Emergency Room Health Workers (Case Study: Rumah Sakit Tingkat III Brawijaya)

OPSI, 2022
Emergency Room (ER) at RS Tingkat III Brawijaya is the first work unit that patients visit when they need first aid with various complaints. Kinds of patients in emergency medical services RS.
Melani Pratiwi Munir Putri, Akmal Suryadi   +1 more
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Mental illness and medical aid in dying

University of Western Ontario Medical Journal, 2020
A 2017 survey of 529 psychiatrists in Canada found that while 72% of psychiatrists supported medical assistance in dying (MAID) in some cases, only 29.4% supported MAID solely on the basis of mental disorders.  Understanding and addressing the concerns of mental health professionals will be crucial in deciding whether and how to expand MAID solely for ...
Gali Katznelson, Jacek Orzylowski
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Survival for Children Diagnosed With Wilms Tumour (2012–2022) Registered in the UK and Ireland Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of Childhood (IMPORT) Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of childhood (IMPORT) is a prospective clinical observational study capturing detailed demographic and outcome data on children and young people diagnosed with renal tumours in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Naomi Ssenyonga, Angela Lopez‐Cortes, Reem Al‐Saadi, Suzanne Tugnait, Kristina Dzhuma, Catriona Duncan, Gordan Vujanic, Tanzina Chowdhury, Claudia Allemani, Michel P. Coleman, Kathy Pritchard‐Jones, the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Renal Tumour Special Interest Group, Hugh Bishop, Anthony McCarthy, Pamela Kearns, Helen Rees, Amos Burke, Meriel Jenney, Jane Pears, Hamish Wallace, Milind Ronghe, Tanzina Chowdhury, Susan Picton, Emma Ross, Lisa Howell, Bernadette Brennan, Gail Halliday, Richard Grundy, Shaun Wilson, Sucheta Vaidya, Daniel Yeomanson, Jessica Bate, Vesna Pavasovic, Jessica Bate, Sabine Irtan, Jesper Brok, Minou Oostveen, Kristina Dzhuma, Mark Weeks, Richard Williams, Mark Powis, Max Pachl, Bruce Okoye, Naima Smeulders, Gordan Vujanic, Oystein Olsen, Tom Watson, Susan Shelmerdine, Dan Saunders, Angela Lopez-Cortes, Taryn Treger, Tom Jackson, Suzanne Tugnait, Lisa Howell, Tanzina Chowdhury, Sam Behjati, Angela Polanco   +56 more
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Terminal anorexia nervosa is a dangerous term: it cannot, and should not, be defined

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022
A recent article (JED 10:23, 2022) proposed defining terminal anorexia to improve access to palliative and hospice care, and to medical aid in dying for a minority of patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN). The authors presented three
Angela S. Guarda, Annette Hanson, Philip Mehler, Patricia Westmoreland   +3 more
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