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Do you have the right to Die? WSJ: March 23, 2005
Terri Schiavo is now no longer in her body -- the body is dead. Is Terri dead?
After Josef Weissberg suffered a heart attack in 2001, following a battle with cancer, his son Ted was comforted that his father had prepared a living will.
But as Ted soon discovered, a living will can't prevent a loved one from trying to pursue passionate beliefs. When it became clear Josef would die unless doctors intervened, Ted's uncle, Norbert Weissberg, began appealing to doctors to save his brother. "He just couldn't let his brother go," Ted says.
WSJ: September 12, 2003: Is Trauma Debriefing Worse Than Letting Victims Heal Naturally?
A 2001 analysis, for example, examined peer-reviewed studies that randomly assigned trauma survivors to receive "critical-incident stress debriefing," a commonly used protocol, or not. (Randomized controls let you separate the effects of [psychological] debriefing from natural recovery.) The conclusion: There is no evidence that debriefing helps prevent PTSD in trauma survivors, partly because most recover naturally.
The Destruction Of American Education Leading To Corruption of Medicine by Karl Loren
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