Pain or euthanasia
The suspicion of an internist from Hannover against euthanasia has triggered considerable uncertainty within the medical profession. The case reveals a difficultborderline between pain control and euthanasia.
In Germany too excited because euthanasia investigation stir: So keep theParacelsus Clinic in Hanover, a doctor not guilty, the prosecutor's determined. The management of the hospital chain said Wednesday that meet for many years in the clinic in Hanover-Langenhagen active 53-year-old eventually not at fault.
Rather, there was the dispute is not decided in Germany on the use of morphine in pain management. Morphine used in Germany in comparison to the otherneighboring European countries are much less. Thus goes hand in hand theaccusation that many in Germany has come too little pain control.
In the prosecution of the investigated 76 deaths Whether they are all flat over the past two years with morphine-treated patients who died of a physician. The prosecution had announced on Tuesday that it has seized the medical records of 76patients with cancer of the Affiliated doctor. They commissioned the BochumProfessor Michael Zens with the examination of 15 cases.
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