death and dying
Death and dying raise many issues for patients and doctors alike. See also 'euthanasia', 'care of the elderly' and 'assisted suicide' pages.
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Finishing well to the Glory of God (triple helix - spring 2012)
Strategies from a Christian Physician John Dunlop Crossway, 2011 £9.99 pB 222PP ISBN 978 1 43351 347 3 Dr Dunlop writes from long experience as a Christian and a geriatrician. He garners from his experience stories of patients and acquaintances which illustrate strategies for preparing for an...
Through my eyes (triple helix - winter 2011)
Through my eyes - a husband's diary Steve Hackney Authentic Media Limited, 2011 £8.99 Pb 100pp ISBN 185078955X - Through My Eyes is a man's story of his wife's illness and death from cancer, written by a Pentecostal minister in Nottingham. Stephen's wife Lesley was diagnosed with a rare...
Judge rules in favour of life in M case (triple helix - winter 2011)
On 28 September the Court of Protection ruled in favour of life in the case of M, a 53 year old woman who suffered severe brain damage as a result of viral encephalitis in 2003. M's sister and partner wanted artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) given via a gastrostomy tube to be stopped with...
On my way to heaven (triple helix - summer 2011)
Mark Ashton - 10publishing 2010 - £1.75 Pb 26pp - ISBN: 978 1 90617 308 1 - - Having only sneaked into the 2006 National Student Conference by virtue of my wife still being at medical school, I was greately encouraged by Mark Ashton's talks on Matthew - well at least by the two I managed to hear...
stillbirths: tragedy and controversy (triple helix - summer 2011)
- New figures from The Lancet reveal the tragedy of the scale of stillbirths, estimated at around 3 million worldwide, every year; more than 8,200 stillborn babies a day. This vast number eclipses deaths from AIDS/HIV and many other diseases that get far more money. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 98% of...
Submission to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on Quality Standards Programme: End of life care for adults - 22/7/2011
This quality standard covers all settings in which care is provided by health and social care staff to adults approaching the end of life and adults who die suddenly or after a very brief illness. It sets out markers of care for adults approaching the end of life and also covers support for their families and carers. The CMF submission to this...A time to let go? (triple helix - winter 2010)
Ian Donald believes we must recognise life has a natural end. - Key points - Pressure for physician assisted deaths is driven by a culture of individualism and choice, but also by many people's fears of what their last days or weeks of life will be like. The author, a geriatrician, argues that...
Doctors' faith, ethnicity, and ethically controversial decisions
6/9/2010
A paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics on 25 August by the respected researcher Clive Seale attracted much media comment. Under the title The role of doctors' religious faith and ethnicity in taking ethically controversial decisions during end of life care he described a postal survey of 3,733 UK medical practitioners, 2,923 of whom...
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Guided to my destination (triple helix - spring 2010)
The late James Casson saw death as his ultimate healing. - In all the frenzied media debate about euthanasia and assisted suicide, the question of what lies beyond death is almost never raised. Thirty years ago, CMF's best selling book was published posthumously. 1 Its concluding passage is...
Joanna Thompson, 1949-2009 (triple helix - winter 2009)
Joanna Thompson, who died on 24 July 2009 after a short illness, was the head of CareConfidential , a department of the well-known Christian charity CARE . She devoted her life to helping desperate women struggling with the crisis of unexpected pregnancy or with problems following abortion, and her...