May 27, 2004
By: Adam Liptak, Sarah Kershaw
The New York Times (NY)
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the only law in the nation authorizing doctors to help their terminally ill patients commit suicide. The decision, by a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, said the [...]
May 23, 2004
By: Jen McCaffery
Roanoke Times (VA)
Managing pain puts doctors in the position of divining which patients are telling the truth and which are lying about their pain.
There’s a joke in the Roanoke Valley medical community these days that goes, “write a prescription, go to jail.”
Doctors feel like they’re under a microscope for prescribing painkillers [...]
May 20, 2004
By: Carl T. Hall
The San Francisco Chronicle
A Shasta County physician who once faced multiple counts of murder and other felonies as part of an alleged drug-dealing conspiracy was found not guilty late Tuesday of the remaining charges against him, ending a high- profile case seen as a test of the ability of doctors [...]
May 3, 2004
Press Release
Painreliefnetwork.org
Although a prescription monitoring program was Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s number one legislative priority for this session, the bills (House Bill 397 and Senate Bill 580) were blocked last Friday by Republican legislators due to concerns about the privacy of patients.
“Governor Bush’s bill would have institutionalized a climate of fear for pain [...]
