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Remember, patients are usually required to give up standard treatment for their terminal disease in order to enroll.
FORBES: Learning the Right Lessons from Hospice
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They should receive the best care possible, including palliative treatment, a dimension of terminal care that is often scandalously neglected: and this in turn will require, in America, a proper effort to extend health coverage to the uninsured.
ECONOMIST: The right to choose to die
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Now, as a society, we must pressure the medical community to ensure that everyone with a terminal illness benefits from better, more progressive treatment to alleviate pain.
FORBES: Fact and Comment
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Dr Jose Rafael Marquina, a Venezuelan based in Miami, repeatedly predicted that Mr Chavez's illness would prove terminal, providing detailed accounts of what he said was the president's course of treatment.
BBC: Hugo Chavez leaves Venezuela in economic muddle