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  1. (2 other versions)Criminal Act or Palliative Care? Prosecutions Involving the Care of the Dying.Ann Alpers - 1998 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 26 (4):308-331.
    Two significant, apparently unrelated, trends have emerged in American society and medicine. First, American medicine is reexamining its approach to dying. The Institute of Medicine, the American Medical Association and private funding organizations have recognized that too many dying people suffer from pain and other distress that clinicians can prevent or relieve. Second, this past decade has marked a sharp increase in the number of physicians prosecuted for criminal negligence based on arguably negligent patient care. The case often cited as (...)
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  • An Ethical Analysis of the Barriers to Effective Pain Management.Ben A. Rich - 2000 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (1):54-70.
    Among the most significant findings of SUPPORT was that 50% of ICU patients suffered from moderate to severe pain during the last days of life. At the time of its publication late in 1995, SUPPORT was merely the latest in a long series of articles in the medical literature documenting the widespread and significant undertreatment of pain, beginning with a 1973 study of hospital inpatients. Much has been written about the phenomenon of undertreated pain and inadequate care of patients at (...)
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  • (1 other version)Relieving Pain and Foreseeing Death: A Paradox About Accountability and Blame.Susana Nuccetelli & Gary Seay - 2000 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (1):19-25.
    In a familiar moral dilemma faced by physicians who care for the dying, some patients who are within days or hours of death may experience suffering in a degree that cannot be relieved by ordinary levels of analgesia. In such cases, it may sometimes be possible to honor a competent patient's request for pain relief only by giving an injection of narcotics in a dosage so large that the patient's death is thereby hastened. Doctors rightly worry that taking an action (...)
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  • (1 other version)Relieving Pain and Foreseeing Death: A Paradox about Accountability and Blame.Susana Nuccetelli & Gary Seay - 2000 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (1):19-25.
    In a familiar moral dilemma faced by physicians who care for the dying, some patients who are within days or hours of death may experience suffering in a degree that cannot be relieved by ordinary levels of analgesia. In such cases, it may sometimes be possible to honor a competent patient's request for pain relief only by giving an injection of narcotics in a dosage so large that the patient's death is thereby hastened. Doctors rightly worry that taking an action (...)
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  • (1 other version)Pain Management and Provider Liability: No More Excuses.Barry R. Furrow - 2001 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (s4):28-51.
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  • (1 other version)Pain Management and Provider Liability: No More Excuses.Barry R. Furrow - 2001 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 29 (1):28-51.
    Pain is undertreated in the American health-care system at all levels: physician offices, hospitals, long-term care facilities. The result is needless suffering for patients, complications that cause further injury or death, and added costs in treatment overall. The health-care system's failure to respond to patient pain needs corrective action. Excuses for such shortcomings are simply not acceptable any longer.Physicians have long been accused of poor pain management for their patient. The term “opiophobia” has been coined to describe this remarkable clinical (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Criminal Act or Palliative Care? Prosecutions Involving the Care of the Dying.Ann Alpers - 1998 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 26 (4):308-331.
    Two significant, apparently unrelated, trends have emerged in American society and medicine. First, American medicine is reexamining its approach to dying. The Institute of Medicine, the American Medical Association and private funding organizations have recognized that too many dying people suffer from pain and other distress that clinicians can prevent or relieve. Second, this past decade has marked a sharp increase in the number of physicians prosecuted for criminal negligence based on arguably negligent patient care. The case often cited as (...)
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