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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Her most recent book is Elderhood. It was a patient that I had taken care of, actually, as a resident, who followed me into my growing private practice. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. And the phone rang.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

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To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Many links: Mara Buchbinder’s book – Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. It’s bigger. It’s bigger than you and you are not me.