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04.21.09

Health care community should have been ready


Editorial, Tri-City Herald

If a law makes money for the government, all the arrangements to collect the dollars seem to be in place the day it takes effect.

So it’s odd to learn the voter-approved Death With Dignity Law that took effect last month has yet to have a path to fulfillment in our community.

Yes, it’s now legal to obtain a prescription for a life-ending drug if...

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Compassion Blog

Student sees a need for health care providers to step up

This week , the Spokesman Review newspaper from Spokane, Washington hosted a wonderful guest column by Leah Bean. Bean is a student at Spokane Community College and plans to attend Gonzaga University in the fall.

Death with Dignity a law, but unavailable:

On March 5, one day after Washington’s Death with Dignity Act took effect, my grandfather was taken to the hospital and admitted for low sugar diabetes. Two days later, on his 76th birthday,...

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