Doctors may treat dying patients for too long
UK – Inquiry into end-of-life care finds some doctors carry on giving treatment to dying patients because of pressure
UK – Inquiry into end-of-life care finds some doctors carry on giving treatment to dying patients because of pressure
USA – Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday giving terminally ill Californians the right to be prescribed a lethal dose of
FRANCE – France’s lower house of parliament passed a bill on Tuesday allowing patients near the end of their lives to stop medical treatment and request deep sedation until they die, a move that critics say is effectively a form of euthanasia.
UK – Instead of trying to outwit mortal disease, we should be learning to face our fate with courage. I’m writing this after hearing an apparently innocuous and encouraging snippet of news – that a new lung cancer treatment is capable of giving