Word: lundberg
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...dispute that the story raised troubling questions about a practice that may occur in hospitals more often than most patients realize -- or most doctors are willing to admit. J.A.M.A. Editor George Lundberg says his own staff split over whether or not to publish the piece. But two medical peer- review panels urged him to publish it. Lundberg, who believes the anonymous account is genuine (though J.A.M.A. has made no attempt to verify it), decided to go ahead. "My intent was to produce vigorous debate on a timely topic," he says. "We are technologically capable of prolonging dying at great cost...
...Lundberg's own position reflects the A.M.A.'s posture on euthanasia: physicians may withhold life-sustaining treatment under certain circumstances, but should never intentionally cause death. Most physicians concur, though some acknowledge that the line is often hard to draw. Perhaps the harshest indictment of Debbie's treatment comes from doctors who maintain that morphine, used properly, could have kept her comfortable. Her regular physicians, not the hapless resident, believes Minneapolis Neurologist Ronald Cranford, are the "real criminals" for having failed to prescribe adequate medication for her pain. But if the dose required to bring relief also happened to hasten...
Some doctors are wary of outside intrusions into an area that has so long been their province. Says Lundberg: "There are many physicians, myself included, who believe that the place where life and death decisions should be made is at the bedside, between the patient, family, doctor and, if appropriate, a religious representative, and that there's no place for the courts in this decision." Even so, if Debbie's bleak saga yields any lesson, it is that some physicians may need more help and guidance in navigating the murky area between unending pain and death...
...think necessarily a beer bash is thething to do," said Richard Lundberg...
Even away from the hoopla, a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was selling for an average of 93 cents across the country, vs. $1.13 at the same time last year. Dan Lundberg, who puts out the Los Angeles-based Lundberg Letter on the gasoline industry, expects the price difference between this year and last for all types of gasoline to reach an average of 21.6 cents per gal. If that happens, Lundberg says, the U.S. will spend roughly $23 billion less for gasoline than last year's bill of $128.5 billion...