Tag Archives: Nancy Valko

Lethal Problems with Medical Futility and Disability Bias

This article was published by Nancy Valko on January 15, 2020. Nancy Valko By Nancy Valko In 2018, Chris Dunn survived a freak diving accident that left him paralyzed, mostly blind and on a ventilator to breathe. He spent most of the next year in an ICU in rural Maine. Unable to see, eat, breatheContinue reading “Lethal Problems with Medical Futility and Disability Bias”

Marketing Death and Alzheimer’s Disease

This article was written and published by Nancy Valko on August 9, 2019. Nancy Valko By Nancy Valko An April, 2019 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Death From Individuals Who Learn They Have an Alzheimer Disease Biomarker” found that approximately 20% of cognitively normal older adults whoContinue reading “Marketing Death and Alzheimer’s Disease”

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