The findings open the possibility that some of these patients may be able to participate in decisions about their medical care, though a number of scientific, ethical, and legal issues will need to be discussed before taking this step. In the recent experiment, for example, scientists did not ask the patient whether he was in pain, instead sticking to factual questions with answers they could later confirm. "Before we tackle important issues such as pain, treatment, end of life, and so on, there are a lot of things we need to discuss among the medical community as whole," says Laureys.
-
Recent Posts
- May 24, ’12 atxryan: @PolyglotATX I’m struggling between this and @awpug tonight. /cc @BrandonSatrom #TooManyMeetups #TechSceneProblems
- May 24, ’12 atxryan: I really want a kickstarter for a .js TLD to be successful. I’ve wanted this for a long time now. :-) http://t.co/qUl8pytz
- May 24, ’12 atxryan: I was looking into doing this a few weeks ago, but the deadline for application has passed. Unless I’m wrong. http://t.co/Tw5ri2rL
- May 24, ’12 atxryan: No words either, but I has a sad. “@garannm: 1.6% voter turnout. http://t.co/JemKJNfq I don’t even have the words.”
- May 24, ’12 atxryan: @getify I’ve been waiting for TweetDeck to add that feature. $SYMBOL can be treated like a hashtag. I end up using StockTwit for that.
-
More Info
