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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. He was a terrible diabetic. But she didn’t die. She didn’t even make any efforts to die.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. There are other acute issues, blood pressure medication, diabetes. It was like talking about smoking cessation.

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A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity

Physician's Weekly

They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction. Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. But Strong said that already some of the contacts at the FDA she’d spent nearly 15 years educating about the disorder have left the agency.