If a patient's conditions are deteriorating, making him unable to make a rational choice, decisions t prolong or terminate life must be left to his family, doctors, and courts.

如果一个病人的病情恶化，使他无法作出合理的选择，那么就必须有其家属，医生和法庭来决定是否延长或终止其生命。

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Say you have a choice between two doctors.

有两位医生可供你选择。

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They, on the whole, desire to cure the sick, and--if they are good doctors, and the choice were fairly put to them(3) --would rather cure their patient and lose their fee than kill him and get it.

总的说来，他们都想把病人治好，而且--如果他们是好医生，同时公平地要他们作出选择的话--他们宁愿把病人治愈而得不到诊金，也不愿为了诊金却把病人治死。

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In his speech, the president indicated he may be willing to cede some ground in the ongoing political battle over abortion, calling for a "sensible conscience clause" to be included in any potential new freedom of choice legislation, so that doctors and nurses who oppose abortions cannot be forced to perform them.

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Ministers effectively served notice that they would impose the longer hours in April, giving doctors a choice of two options.

BBC: GP writing a prescription (Photo: Science Photo Library)

In another part of Dublin, pro-choice doctors have gathered for a conference organised by the National Women's Council in Ireland.

BBC: Battle between anti-abortion and pro-choice campaigners

Although prostate cancer, in which doctors face a choice between radically different treatment strategies, is an obvious choice for "tailored treatments", other researchers are hopeful that the genetic makeup either of the individual, or, more particularly, of the tumour, will be key to treatment choice in various cancers.

BBC: Gene fingerprint could spot cancer