Is the clock ticking for terminally ill patients in Israel? Preliminary comment on a proposal for a bill of rights for the terminally ill.

END OF LIFE Is the clock ticking for terminally ill patients in Israel? Preliminary comment on a proposal for a bill of rights for the terminally ill

This paper presents and discusses a recent Israeli proposal to legislate on the rights of the dying patient. A gap exists between elitist biases of the committee proposing the law, and popular values and sentiments. The proposed law divides the dying patients into two groups: ‘‘those who wish to go on living’’ and ‘‘those who wish to die’’. The former will have a right to life prolonging extrao...

Care of the Terminally Ill Patient in India: Comments on the Proposed Legislation

The Government of India recently published a draft version of the Medical Treatment of Terminally-Ill Patients Bill for comments and feedback from the public. The bill, when enacted, will provide some clarity to end-of-life care in terminally ill patients in India and is intended to protect both physicians and patients frompotential liability. Such a law is relevant for the global oncology comm...

Drugs--Federal Drug Administration ban on Laetrile treatments for terminally ill cancer patients is arbitrary and capricious.

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Decisionmaking for the incompetent terminally ill patient: a compromise in a solution eliminates a compromise of patients' rights.

Rights of the terminally ill patient.