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Frederick Smith

Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Sedation - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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end-of-life-care palliative care palliative sedation

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  • Frederick Smith on 03 Jan 10
     
    Most readers favor palliative sedation if its primary intent is to allay intolerable suffering even if it may accelerate dying - as opposed to allowing the suffering because its treatment may lead to an earlier death.
Frederick Smith

Months to Live - Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death - Sedation - Series - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...27sedation.html

end-of-life-care palliative sedation palliative care

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    Discussion of palliative sedation at end of life (Franklin Hospital Hospice Unit, NSLIJHealth System & Hospice Care Network of L.I.)
Frederick Smith

Weighing Medical Costs of End-of-Life Care - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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end-of-life-care health-care health-policy health care financing health care rationing

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    Readers largely support measures to allow death in dignified environment with palliative approach, as opposed to repeated aggressive interventions that are rarely successful when the prognosis is poor.
Frederick Smith

S. Toulmin, Philosopher and Educator - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...11toulmin.html

philosophy Toulmin pragmatism non-Cartesian philosophy obit

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    Philosopher advocating pragmatic, contextual reasoning - favored Montaigne over Descartes.
Frederick Smith

PaulineChen, Primary Care Image Problem - 0 views

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primary care physician workforce

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    1ry Care Erosion by "ROAD"
Frederick Smith

NORC/U.Chicago, "Religious Change Around the World" - 0 views

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global religious change religion and secularization

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    Diverse patterns of belief & secularization, both with increasing wealth and post-Communism
Frederick Smith

What makes us happy? (JWShenk) - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...happiness

Good Life Happiness Life Outcomes Grant Study Harvard undergrads' lives from 1937

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    The Grant longitudinal study of Harvard students (1937->) incl JFK, Ben Bradlee - & G.Vaillant ldrshp
Frederick Smith

Evangelical reporter refutes 'theocracy aim' - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2005050301277.html

evangelicals evangelicals and public square religion

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    J.M.Phillips (former NYT reporter) attacks columns by M.Dowd, F.Rich & P.Krugman about menace of evangelical "jihadism."
Frederick Smith

Robert Wright, "the Evolution of God" - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...Bloom-t.html

God religion evolving religion

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    God as human projection over time, evolving toward universal and inclusive morality
Frederick Smith

"God, he's moody" - 0 views

www.salon.com/...print.html

God God evolving religious evolution

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    Salon interview with R.Wright, author of "The Evolution of God"
Frederick Smith

Costs & Compassion, by Paul Krugman on health care reform - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...24krugman.html

health care reform

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    Agrees with Obama's 7/22/09 analysis of need to overhaul health care system - compassion coincides with need for cost constraint.
Frederick Smith

Ross Douhat, "Telling Grandma No" - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...17douthat.html

Medicare death panels health care rationing distributive justice cost-effective health care

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    Conservative criticism of Republican scare tactics about Medicare limiting futile care at EOL
Frederick Smith

Krugman, The Swiss Menace - 0 views

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universal health care health care reform

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    Swiss private & universal health care
Frederick Smith

Health Care's Generation Gap - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...17dooling.html

cost-effective health care distributive justice health care reform

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    over-spending on very old, too little on young
Frederick Smith

plain language summary of hr 3200 - 0 views

www.examiner.com/as-the-health-care-reform-bill

health care reform HR 3200 Waxman health care reform bill

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    from St.Louis examiner.com
Frederick Smith

Letters re R.Wright's Common Ground on Evol'n? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...l26evolution.html

evolution nytimes Robert Wright faith

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    letters by Daniel Dennett, Judith Shapiro & others (incl F.Smith) pro & con & in between
Frederick Smith

At end, offering comfort instead of cure-NYTimes feature - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...20doctors.html

*palliative care* *end of life Montefiore palliative program

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    Palliative care program at Montefiore Hospital
Frederick Smith

Jim Holt Essay: "Death: Bad?" - 0 views

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death *fear of death* *death&philosophy*

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    3 classic (& lousy) arguments that it's irrational to fear death - review of Simon Critchley's 'Book of Dead Philosophers'
Frederick Smith

Steinfels, "Globally, Religion Defies Easily Identified Patterns" - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...24beliefs.html

global religious change religion & secularization religion Steinfels

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    Nat'l Opin Res Council, U of Chi - secularz'n prop'l to wealth, but very zig-zagged patterns in Europe (pre-Comm Prot's more likely to be atheist than RC/EO?)
Frederick Smith

John Edwin Smith, Philosopher and Author, Dies at 88 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...19smith.html

philosophy religion religion & philosophy pragmatism obit John Edwin Smith non-Cartesian philosophy

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    Philosopher interested in American pragmatists (James, Pierce, Dewey), Josiah Royce, and religion (including Jonathan Edwards!" "The search for truth, he argued, was an inherently social, communitarian enterprise."
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