1. Name the doctor given a suspended prison sentence for the attempted murder of a dying patient. 2. The line between legal and illegal is very fine for doctors treating dying patients. 3. There is a strong tendency to give dying patients far more drugs than are necessary. 4. Dying patients especially- 5. And, as ever, the issue ultimately remains to be negotiated in the private realm occupied by dying patients, their families and doctors and nurses. 6. At this trial, the prosecution told the jurors that Burzynski had preyed on the fears of dying patients who were desperate for any treatment for a terminal illness. 7. A physician who grants the last request of his dying patient will never go to jail. 8. Advocates for terminally ill people urged a federal appeals panel Friday to strike down a New York state law that prohibits doctors from helping dying patients commit suicide. 9. But Dr. Swain argues that doctors often must test new techniques on dying patients who have no other options. 10. But many doctors oppose the notion of routinely prescribing lethal drugs for dying patients, and deny that by managing death they are breaching moral boundaries. |