Category: Patient Care

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Patient Care}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Patient Care}

We have entered the era of what I call “do harm medicine,” in which the concept of what constitutes harming the patient has become entirely malleable and subjective. I even wrote a book covering that subject. Read More ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
July 10, 2021
Patient Care}

Court Wrong to Okay Refusal of Life-Saving Medication to Prisoners

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 10, 2021
Patient Care}

This is outrageous. Kentucky denied a prisoner with hepatitis a life-saving drug that always works — because of the expense. Now, a court of appeals ruling finds that the move is constitutional. Read More ›

Hands of the old man and a young man on a white bed in a hospital.

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 5, 2021
Patient Care}

Computer Program Developed in Canada to Predict When Seniors Have 6 Months to Live

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 5, 2021
Patient Care}

As if we needed further evidence that medicine is growing increasingly impersonal, the Canadian Medical Association Journal has published a study that claims a computer program can predict when seniors have six months to live. Read More ›

National flag on stethoscope conceptual series - United Kingdom

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 13, 2021
Patient Care}

U.K. Forced Do Not Resuscitate Orders on COVID Patients with Developmental Disabilities

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 13, 2021
Patient Care}

Oh, the joys of centralized health care. Apparently, the NHS has engaged in a bigoted DNR regime for COVID patients with developmental disabilities Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2021
Abortion, Patient Care}

HHS Rule Would Have Prohibited Discrimination Against Babies with Disabilities

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2021
Abortion, Patient Care}

Working until the last minute, the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services has published a proposed rule that would protect babies born prematurely from death — including those who survive abortion — and disabled people generally from discrimination in the health-care context. Read More ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
January 13, 2021
Patient Care}

Hospice Workers Should Be at the Front of the Vaccine Line Too

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 13, 2021
Patient Care}

We all know that residents in long-term-care/assisted-living facilities and frontline health-care personnel make up Phase 1a of the CDC vaccine distribution plan, putting them — rightly — at the front of the vaccine line. But not all medical workers are apparently created equal. I am specifically referring to hospice workers, who have been placed toward the back of the queue in several states. Read More ›

Older woman lying in hospital bed alone looking at the Christian crucifix asking for her healing.

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2021
Patient Care}

NY Bill Would Hospitalize Infectious Sick Forcibly without Hearing

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2021
Patient Care}

A bill in the New York legislature would permit sick people deemed a threat to public health to be hospitalized forcibly without a hearing based on the order of the governor or heads of local health departments. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2020
Patient Care}

D.C. to Legalize Vaccination of 11-Year-Olds Without Parental OK

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2020
Patient Care}

Progressives think the state is better at raising children than parents. For example, in California and some other states, children can obtain abortions without parental knowledge. Now, Washington, D.C.’s uber-leftwing city council has passed a bill permitting children down to age 11 to obtain vaccinations–i.e., medical interventions–without parental knowledge or consent. From the Epoch Times story: Bill 23-171 would allow for children as young as 11 to consent to all vaccines on the government schedule. At the same time, the school, health care provider, and the parent’s private insurance would conceal the child’s vaccination from parents or guardians—who would have no knowledge of the vaccination unless the child told them. The bill states that the minor must be “capable of meeting the informed Read More ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2020
Patient Care}

Autonomy or Abandoning the Mentally Ill?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2020
Patient Care}

A U.K. woman with anorexia is in danger of starving to death and courts there will not allow force-feeding to save her life because she has decision-making capacity. Read More ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2020
Patient Care}

More Evidence of ‘Organs on Demand’ System in China

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2020
Patient Care}

China has been repeatedly and credibly accused of organ harvesting the Falun Gong and other political prisoners, usually for the black market, in which rich foreigners needing a transplant travel there and buy their lives at the cost of ending someone else’s. It is an evil trade, and one for which China should be shunned by the international community. Now, we have even more evidence that China has the ability to obtain organs on demand. A Chinese woman living in Japan was flown there for a heart transplant and was able to have four made available for transplant in ten days. From the Epoch Times story: “The question is: who is the source for these 4 hearts,” said Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of the medical Read More ›