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Euthanasia medicine. Murad Jacob " Jack " Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". [ 2 ] Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end.
Pain management physicians (2 C, 4 P) Palliative care physicians (1 C, 9 P) Pathologists (14 C, 2 P) Pediatricians (9 C, 8 P) Pharmacologists (8 C, 14 P) Prison physicians (4 P) Psychiatrists (11 C, 47 P) Public health doctors (3 C, 9 P) Pulmonologists (3 C, 3 P)
Palliative care. Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [ 1 ] Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist.
t. e. Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was the co-founder and chief strategist ...
Medical specialty. A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy. Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children (paediatrics), cancer (oncology), laboratory medicine (pathology), or primary care (family medicine).
Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency medicine physicians (often called "ER doctors" in the United States) specialize in providing care for unscheduled and undifferentiated patients of all ages.
University of Sydney. Sydney South West Area Health Service. Sub-specialties. Head and neck surgery. Research. Head and neck cancer. Christopher John O'Brien AO (3 January 1952 – 4 June 2009) was an Australian head and neck surgeon. He achieved national recognition as a compassionate surgeon in the reality television series RPA.
Christopher Daniel Duntsch (born April 3, 1971) [1] is a former American neurosurgeon who has been nicknamed Dr. D. and Dr. Death[2] for 33 incidents of gross neurosurgical malpractice while working at hospitals in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which maimed 31 patients and caused 2 deaths. [3] He was accused of injuring 33 out of 38 ...