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"Hi The Sun MONDAY, February 1, 1988 A6 I NATION Doctor's tale of ending woman's life draws objections CHICAGO (AP) A young physician who wrote an essay describing a decision to inject a deadly dose of morphine into a terminally ill patient has been 6 It was a gallows scene, a cruel mockery of her youth and unfulfilled potential. Her only words to me were, 'Let's get this over with. 5 condemned by colleagues ho called the action unethical and illegal. A evnecoloev resident told how he ended the life of a 20-year-old cancer patient in an article titled, "It's Over, Debbie," in not give her health, but I could give her rest." He asked the nurse to get 20 mg of morphine, "Enough, I thought, to do the job." He told the patient and another woman in the room, apparently the patient's mother, "I was going to give Debbie something that would let her rest and to say good-bye." He then injected the morphine himself intravenously. The patient's breathing slowed and ii-nallv ceased.

Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, called the essay "an ethical travesty," partially because the physician did not know the patient. "It's as if after having a rough night, you tell someone, ish I were and they kill you," Caplan said. has received a flood of letters protesting the essay, said Dr. George Lundberg, the magazine's editor.

The magazine has not yet published any of the letters. Lundberg and his staff believebut have not confirmed that the essay is based on an actual event. The doctor's name and hospital were withheld at his request. "I would say the mail is running 80 to 20 against publishing the piece at all. and the vast majority is running against the physician's action," Lundberg said.

Dr. Mark Siegler, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, called the action described in the essay a case of "active, direct killing." Debbie's remaining time was a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Associa tion. "It was a gallows scene, a chart, which said she was dying of ovarian cancer, would not respond to chemotherapy, and was suffering from unrelenting vomiting. He entered her room and noted the woman's "loud, labored breathing." After woman said, "Let's get this over with," the doctor said he "retreated with my thoughts to the nurses station. The patient was tired and needed rest.

I could cruel mockery of her youth and snuffed out by an unthinking on-call resident who as conditioned for this action by an intellectual climate of vague notions of 'death ith Siegler said. The physician wrote that the 80-pound woman was not his patient; he had never seen her before a nurse awakened him in the middle of the night and asked him to check on a patient who "was having difficulty getting rest." The doctor quickly read her unfulfilled potential. Her only words to me were, "Let's get this over rote the physician, who said he had never seen the patient before the night he ended her life. The Chicago-based journal iTTi! (npW JO GET HERE:) in the Inland Empire! Kill I ffmKI'M lw MILL STREET ORANGE 2 SHOW GROUNDS 10 I Fwy nX 215 FWY Accessories for All 2 4WD Trucks Replacement IEEP Parts leep Bodies 11" leep Brake Kits Tires Wheels Pre-Runner Kits Axles Gears Tops All at Wholesale Prices! UXJSUSPEMION i RANCH SHOCKS mtmmT I MP" DANA SPICER EIS BRAKE 1) I 1 00 Watt Quartz RSAOOO RS5000 Z4.9' 27.95 RS6000 RS7000 31.95 $33.95 COMPETITION LIGHT Nofziger firm asked bribe, newspaper says NEW YORK The lobbying firm owned by former White House aide Lyn Nofziger tried to get Wedtech Corp. to make an illegal payment of up to $400,000 for help in winning a big defense contract, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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