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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. Who do you give informed consent to? Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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PROP and Chou petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change opioid labeling in July 2012 (29, 30), but FDA rejected PROP’s call for a maximum daily dose of opioid analgesia of 100 morphine milligram equivalents (MME) based on a lack of supporting data (31). Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

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