The invaluable Patients Rights Council (for whom I am a paid consultant) has published a badly needed fact sheet on the newest craze in suicide advocacy–voluntary self starvation/dehydration–known in death promoting parlance as...
Read MoreJAMA has editorialized concerning Futile Care Theory, aka medical futility. The idea is that when a doctor or bioethics committee believes that wanted life-sustaining treatment isn’t worth the suffering or cost, they...
Read MoreThis is an important issue that has generally been ignored in the popular media about assisted suicide and the practice of doctors refusing wanted life-sustaining treatment. Physicians who legally cooperate in patient suicides...
Read MoreA medical system deeply dedicated to Hippocratic values of patient equality and uninfected by the “quality of life” virus would not need laws prohibiting discrimination against the sickest and most seriously disabled...
Read MoreBioethics pushed personal autonomy to the forefront of medical decision making, helping forge the legal right to say no to unwanted life-extending care. Today, if a person doesn’t want to be in an ICU or to be otherwise...
Read MoreGood grief! The state with the worst futile care law in the nation now has legislation pending that would enable doctors to place DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders on a patient’s chart without notice or permission —...
Read MoreFutile Care Theory claims that doctors and hospital bioethics committees should be empowered to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on their beliefs that the patient’s life is not worth living or too expensive to...
Read MoreFutile Care Theory, aka medical futility, is a bioethical theory under which doctors/ hospital bioethics committees are empowered to withdraw wanted life-sustaining treatment based on their perceptions of the patient’s...
Read MorePatients are not individuals in centralized healthcare systems. Rather, they become members of checklist categories on bureaucratic check lists. How else explain doctors putting nearly one-half of patients on the Liverpool Care...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Medical Establishment continues to try and misdirect the conversation on the pending threat of “death panels” under Obamacare. They pretend it is about...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I was pretty teed off about the Canadian doctors trying to force Hassan Rasouli off of wanted life-sustaining treatment. Then, when I found out that even though they were...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC They keep wanting to force very sick patients off of wanted life-extending treatment. Known as futile care theory, medical futility, “inappropriate care,” and a...
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