Tag: Medical Ethics

While researchers don’t know exactly how common it is, the nation’s leading group of obstetricians and gynecologists says women should be screened for ‘reproductive coercion.’

The conscious choice to allow life to end by voluntary withdrawal of medication is a personal choice for the individual to make. I have no more right to tell someone they must continue to suffer “in hope” of a cure than I have to tell someone they should leave to make room for the rest of the population.

“Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more,” Proverbs 31:6-7.

I've been thinking about this issue since my mother is battling, most likely, terminal cancer if she doesn't get healed.

This week’s viewpoint is very meaningful for me. I am likely the only contributor who routinely performs euthanasia. As a veterinarian it is an unpleasant reality of the job.

We acknowledge and use scientific advances in the form of medicine for the prolonging of life while at the same time recognizing that the body is but a temporary vehicle in which we are currently housed.

I've never pondered the connection between my faith and organ donation. I tend to avoid thinking of my own death, so the question of organ donation comes up only every four years when renewing my driver's license.