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Considering the value of life... medical ethical issues at the beginning, middle and end of life
Posted on September 06, 2008
This summer, the public learned of a 64-year old woman, living in a low-income apartment and covered by Medicaid under the Oregon Health Plan, who was denied coverage for chemotherapy prescribed by her oncologist for her lung cancer, but she was offered state-assisted suicide as a palliative or comfort care measure. Treatment of advanced cancer that is meant to prolong life, or change the...
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