“I want to be able to live. I want my conditions effectively treated, and I want effective pain relief. But while Martignetti may assume he will get good care, Black people like me tend to receive inferior care because of racial disparities in cardiac care, diabetes, and cancer. Black people like me …
Everyone has a right to equal quality of care. We should reject ableism in all its forms, but especially in these life and death situations. ‘Nursing homes in the UK were asked by government health managers and family doctors to place blanket “Do not resuscitate” (DNR) orders on all residents at the height of …
UK bureaucrats imposed DNR orders on care homes: report Read More »
For the first time since assisted death was legalized in Canada in 2016, a judge has ordered that a request for medical help in dying be put on hold. A Nova Scotia man wants to die because of a lung disease that he says has left him near the end of his life. Katherine, …
Wife goes to court to stop husband from obtaining assisted suicide Read More »
Read two views and vote AGAINST assisted suicide in the Boston Globe’s online poll… Dr. Laura A. Petrillo Palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital; Newton resident Although the United States is in the throes of the greatest health and economic crisis of our era, a bill to legalize physician-assisted death …
Should Massachusetts adopt the proposed assisted suicide bill? Read More »
A closer look at the official figures is is disturbing. Four years after euthanasia was legalised throughout Canada on 17 June 2016, the “first annual report” covering euthanasia deaths in 2019 was released in July 2020. As the dead bodies pile higher – 13,946 of them in three and a half years according to …
The optics are not good: lessons from euthanasia in Canada Read More »
I disagree with Joan Milnes’s call for passage of the assisted suicide bill now in the legislature (“Making a final choice about quality-of-life,” July 28). Her framing of it as an individual matter of “choice” about one’s so-called “quality-of-life” is prejudicial and dangerous. Milnes’s example is her cousin Tony with cystic fibrosis who, at his …
Older, ill and disabled people deserve choice-promoting services, supports Read More »
State policies for rationing health care during the coronavirus pandemic could allow doctors to cut off treatment for some of the sickest patients in hot zones and revive the specter of so-called death panels, say disabled rights groups who are rallying the Trump administration to intervene. The effort has recently gained urgency due to guidelines …
State Covid triage policies prompt fear of discrimination Read More »
What Melissa Hickson says happened to her husband — and what the hospital says — are in conflict. But this much is for sure: Michael Hickson, a 46-year old quadriplegic who’d contracted COVID-19, died at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center in Austin, Texas, on June 11 after the hospital ended treatment for him …
One Man’s COVID-19 Death Raises The Worst Fears Of Many People With Disabilities Read More »
Discrimination in health care has only been exacerbated by the coronavirus, as state after state has considered Crisis Standards of Care that violate the civil rights and erode the inherent human dignity of elders and people with disabilities. Battling these CSCs has been like a frantic game of whack-a-mole for advocates and the federal government …
Arizona is discriminating against the vulnerable to ration care. It must stop. Read More »
In this issue: -Why assisted suicide laws are inherently discriminatory against people with disabilities -Michael Hickson’s story of being denied care by his doctors based on subjective quality of life judgements -2020 Legislative State Status Update -New free downloadable California advance health care directive