Rights of the terminally ill patient.

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

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 extraordin...

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...

بررسی ارتباط بین میزان آگاهی روان‌پزشکان و دستیاران روان‌پزشکی از حقوق بیماران روانی و میزان رعایت این حقوق از دیدگاه آنان در مراکز آموزشی ‌درمانی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اهواز در سال 1391

Backgrounds: Rights of patients with mental disorders are violated in many different ways, and since these patients comprise the most vulnerable section of the society, defending their rights is imperative. Knowledge of psychiatrists and all those involved with these patients of relevant laws plays an influential role in advancing treatment, legal, and humane objectives. Aims: This study aimed ...

The legislation of active voluntary euthanasia in Australia: will the slippery slope prove fatal?

At 2.00 am on the morning of May 24, 1995 the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Australia passed the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act by the narrow margin of 15 votes to 10. The act permits a terminally ill patient of sound mind and over the age of 18 years, and who is either in pain or suffering, or distress, to request a medical practitioner to assist the patient to terminate his or her...