Re: SCOUTED: Doc Knows Best (It'll be too late for you, if he'swrong.)

2003-01-13 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snippage Next part of the answer- be educated. Ask your doc/providers specifically what is going on- make them relate it to something you understand (I use lots of car part analogies for guys as an example). You need to be able to ask questions and make

Re: SCOUTED: Doc Knows Best (It'll be too late for you, if he'swrong.)

2003-01-10 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Deborah Harrell wrote: --- Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:15 PM 1/9/03 -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote: snip Doctors and nurses have struggled for years with the question of futile care. Quality vs. quantity... In the past, decisions were often made by one

Re: SCOUTED: Doc Knows Best (It'll be too late for you, if he'swrong.)

2003-01-10 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:58:49PM -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 09:19 PM 1/9/03 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:40:37PM -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: just mean Mama/Papa is 70+ and though s/he was in good health for a person of that age before the heart attack,

Re: SCOUTED: Doc Knows Best (It'll be too late for you, if he'swrong.)

2003-01-09 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:15 PM 1/9/03 -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote: snip Doctors and nurses have struggled for years with the question of futile care. Quality vs. quantity... In the past, decisions were often made by one individual, acting in what they thought

Re: SCOUTED: Doc Knows Best (It'll be too late for you, if he'swrong.)

2003-01-08 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: But that was before the bioethics movement largely abandoned the sanctity of life ethic for an express or implicit utilitarianism that views the value of human life through a distorting prism of quality. That was before most bioethicists came to believe that

Re: SCOUTED: Doc Knows Best (It'll be too late for you, if he'swrong.)

2003-01-07 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:50:17PM -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: But that was before the bioethics movement largely abandoned the sanctity of life ethic for an express or implicit utilitarianism that views the value of human life through a distorting prism of quality. That was before most