Back on March 30, 2010 president Barrack Obama signed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) since it had been approved by the house on March 21, 2010. ... What I am most happy for is that action is being taken to prevent hospital readmission after they have discharged a patient. There are numerous adverse effects to those who may not be insured as they are bound to meet all of their medical expenditures in case they are ever taken ill. Whenever an uninsured person is taken ill, the responsibility fall on the government and the taxpayer to make sure that the person has acces...

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Some may think that they may not need the full support of a health plan until they begin having families of their own, but actually, in the case that one does become ill, it is essential that there is a health plan that would ensure that the best care possible is received. ... Recently, there has been much attention placed on health care and patient protection by congress. ... The two bills are very similar with the exception being the difference in a patients right to file lawsuit, and the amount one can sue for. ... Without modification, the original bill offered patients increased medic...

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Physician-assisted suicide should be a legal option for terminally ill patients. ... Physician-assisted death involves help from a medically qualified practitioner in fulfilling the wishes of a competent, terminally ill patient to end his/her own life. ... In a survey of Oregon doctors, sixty percent felt they should be allowed legally to help terminally ill patients in certain circumstances to die. ... Terminally ill patients feel many medical professionals are more concerned with lawsuits rather than what may be the best approach in dealing with their diagnosis. ... Without first-hand exp...

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Physicians helping a terminally ill patient through extreme pain and suffering presents a perfect example of mercy. ... Physician-assisted suicide, therefore , can show mercy to a terminally ill patient in severe pain. ... Some terminally ill patients live with pain everyday. ... The anticipation of dying provides solice and comfort to many terminally ill patients. ... Physician- assisted suicide, overall, can provide the comfort a terminally ill patient needs. ...

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Terminally-ill patients want to control their dying process and some choose to die with euthanasia. ... All people have the right to die, but it has to be limited to terminally-ill patients and patients who have no possibility of being cured. A lot of people say that they would die with euthanasia if they are terminally-ill patients. ... If chronically-ill patients want to have the right to die', people have to respect them. ... There should be the right to die when it is related to terminally-ill patients. ...

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Specifically, terminally ill patients suffer because they are denied the right to die. Since 1906 adult terminally ill patients legally fought for their right to die on their own terms, and so far the United States has seen only three states legalize assisted suicide to such patients. ... Many citizens and terminally ill patients propose to change the current law with proper steps and documentation. ... It has also been argued that once the government allows assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, non-critical patients could soon open their opportunity to be treated with death. ... With ...

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Abstract An arterial line provides a method of constantly measuring a critically ill patient's blood pressure. ... The critically ill patient can often have massive abnormalities of their blood pressure; an arterial line provides a method of constantly measuring blood pressure. ... From this it is evident that in the critical care setting invasive arterial pressure monitoring is the gold standard for monitoring the seriously ill patient. The monitoring of arterial blood gasses can give invaluable information about the condition of the critically ill patient. ... Establishing...

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Palliative care is a healthcare practice that seeks to address needs of terminally ill patients. ... Appropriate Practices It is appropriate for doctors to have palliative care timelines showing all the approaches they are going t use during the end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. ... A doctor is then advised to the current medical and functional status of patients. ... Inappropriate Practices It is inappropriate to use sedatives in terminally ill people as a palliative measure. ... Besides the provision of physical health care, BSN nurses have been trained to offer spiritual-psychos...

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Euthanasia is not the answer for the problems of terminally ill patients and disabled babies. ... Some terminally ill patients end their life to save the money their family spends on them! ... The request for voluntary euthanasia is rarely voluntary because terminally ill patients usually suffer from depression, anxiety about the effect of his illness on himself and those around him, this state keeps a terminally ill patient from thinking objectively about his situation. ... Terminally ill patients also adapt to a level of disability that they would not have previously anticipated they could l...

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The main reason for euthanasia is to reduce the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients. ... The patient then receives medicine to reduce the pain and suffering. Anti-euthanasiasts lobby that euthanasia is murder and that physician assisting with the suicide should be punished, however; pro-euthanasiasts want to give terminally ill patients the right to chose and not punish the physician that assisted in the suicide ("Euthanasia 2) The patients' right is another reason for legalizing euthanasia. ... Suicide is legal according to the constitution, but patients that are terminally ...

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Suppose I am terminally ill. ... The most accurate characterization of the survey data is that a significant majority of Americans oppose physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia EXCEPT in the limited case of a terminally ill patient with uncontrollable pain. ... Numerous sources and research studies have come up with the conclusion that the main reason for terminally ill patients choosing to undergo euthanasia is depression, a symptom which is hardly life-threatening. ... Take into account these are actual terminally ill patients who must seriously consider this option for their own we...

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However, for some terminally ill patients the pain is unbearable often-lasting weeks even months. ... In the Netherlands euthanasia is an option for the terminally ill, in severe and uncontrollable pain, and for family members. ... To prevent Oregon from being transformed into a Mecca for the terminally ill, the patient must be a resident of Oregon for the Death with Dignity Act to apply. ... In other words, the patient is starved to death. ... Terminally ill patients suffering extreme distress would seldom have the knowledge, the means or the capacity to end their own lives, particularly if ...

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Within the context of the doctor-patient relationship, a prescription for medication will allow the individual to end all pain. No uniform ruling exists on the law books regarding physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. ... Kevorkian when was acting out of compassion for his terminally ill patients. ... Should we not show compassion and let the terminally ill die with dignity? ... However, physicians are not allowed to provide prescription medication to facilitate the death of a patient. ...

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When the person was ill with any type of disease that could not be treated, or what is called a terminal illness, a poison was put in the cup of the victim. ... When a person is terminally ill, his family might suggest the possibility of euthanasia, when in fact, the person that is ill can only request it. ... The family may offer spiritual input, but is not involved in the final decision, nor can a family member request euthanasia for an ill family member. ... Some doctors are helping terminally ill patients commit suicide-a so-called physician-assisted suicide-without being punished. ......

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Under patients' rights laws dating from the 1960's the mentally ill cannot be forced into treatment involuntarily in any state unless they are dangerous or so gravely disabled that they cannot care for themselves. In short, the laws protecting patients' rights also protect their "right- to be mentally ill. ... Advocates that are pressing for state laws that would make it easier to force patients to take medication under court order are faced with the opposition from civil libertarians and former patients, who see the issue not as a question of medicine but of civil rights. .....

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Thus, in what became a groundbreaking law, in 1976, California became the first state to allow terminally ill patients to die when such a patient chooses to withdraw further treatment. ... But for those patients who are suffering and are seeking hospice care and pain management medicine, those patients feel that it is not working out for them, they feel at misery and that's when the patient knows when it is their time to "go". ... Competent, terminally ill patients should have the right to avoid pain and embrace a timely and dignified death. ... With rule's that protect a ...

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In the United States one's choice to live according to their beliefs and choices are duly recognized and embraced, but terminally ill patients who wish to choose to die with dignity instead of a painful and prolonged death, oftentimes face enormous challenges to obtain life ending drugs. ... Some patients enduring intolerable, unrelievable suffering as well as some terminally ill patients who are enduring lesser but still severe suffering need this legal right, for they cannot escape from their suffering without it. ... Failed attempts may cause the further development of devastating emo...

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In Oregon there is an exception that allows terminally ill patients in intractable pain to get a lethal prescription from their physician. ... Again this should be the patients choice not the governments. ... This is an argument in favor of strict controls to confirm a patient is "of sound mind." ... Should the state have the right to deny terminally ill patients in excruciating pain their wish of Euthanasia? ... In conclusion I feel that euthanasia should be legal to terminally ill patients and those in intractable pain. ...

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Some feel that a terminally ill patient should have a legal right to control the manner in which they die. ... Many families of the terminally ill have exhausted all of their funds caring for a dying patient and would prefer the option of assisted suicide to bankruptcy. While there are many strong opposing viewpoints, one of the strongest is that the terminally ill patient has the right to die in a humane, dignified manner. However, dignity in dying is not necessarily assured when a trusted doctor, whose professional ethics are to promote and maintain life, injects a terminally ill patient wit...

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They found that 47% of Americans are in favor of allowing physician-assisted suicide for those that are terminally ill while a close 49% are against it. ... All these things would be more or less a perfect description of the everyday life of a terminally ill patient. ... Most of the reasons why terminally ill patients request doctors to assist them in committing suicide might be caused by problems such as hopelessness because there is no effective treatment, anxiety over doctors' very expensive fees, and regret for their family's burden of taking care of them. ... A painless life u...

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Recent debates over active euthanasia, "killing" a terminally ill patient, in Holland, has risen the question whether euthanasia is immoral or a simple human right. ... This, of cause, leads to the ultimatum, that it is the patients own choice. ... From the patients point of view, a lot of arguments talk in favor of euthanasia. ... It can also be mentioned that the life quality of a terminally ill patient, gets reduced a lot. ... My opinion is, that anyone who is terminally ill, should have the choice, but to all rules there are exceptions, and to something as serious as t...

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Usually the incurably ill people ask their physician or relative to put them to death. ... But what most doctors do not realize is you should treat the patient, not the disease. And it is more important for a fatally ill patient to die painlessly and happy, rather than suffer on through life. Doctors should work to help the patient be satisfied and happy in everyway. ... It can help many patients and one day you might even wish is was legal. ...

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If a loved one was terminally ill, the family members could be tempted to put out of misery because the pain they saw from the ill family member was unbearable. ... Palliative care and hospices are couple of treatments available that can help bring comfort to the ill. ... Human errors, such as a doctor's diagnosis could be could be misinterpreted, meaning the patient might not even be terminally ill (Euthanasia 1). ... Not only does it allow doctors to become killers, but also discourages the search for new cures and treatments for the terminally ill. ... When a doctor decides there is no...

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The study found that cancer patients had a 2.3 times higher suicide rate than the general population. ... With bills filed in twenty states plus the District of Columbia, the fight to legalize physician-assisted suicide for individuals who are terminally ill will be a prominent subject in the US this year. ... There is opposition coming from people with concerns regarding doctor's ethics, as well as religious groups and disability activists who believe that assisted suicide suggests that the lives of disabled, old, and ill individuals are not worth living. ... Second, they must determine ...

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If the family is not prepared, they cannot ask the ill member to hold on for them. ... The answer is people who are euthanized are terminally ill or in such discomfort their quality of life has gone down to a degree not worth living. ... Those who are terminally ill know that their life will not get any better. ... They are keeping the patient alive when God perhaps would have them dead. ... Nineteen percent of these doctors took active steps that brought about the death of a patient. ...

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