Once there, we have work to do educating Senators on the emerging medical science, the established regulatory framework and the compassionate needs of patients.
To stay viable the Roman Catholic church will have to do the most radical and in my view, humble of all acts, admit that many of God's "immutable" truths are man-made patriarchal rules long out of step with the compassionate needs of the people.
Also a comprehensive experience reported in a large, multicentre, open-label study that enrolled more than 3000 patients on a compassionate-need basis documented single-agent GEM to be reasonably safe and to offer a median overall survival of 4.8 months (Storniolo et al, 1999).
But the alternative the Republicans have offered for 2012 convinces me that compassionate Americans need to give Mr. Obama four more years.
To be compassionate you need to be wise".
The example of a compassionate America needs to be held up and replicated every day.
They must ensure dying people get the dignified and compassionate care they need.
Little wonder it is almost impossible to recruit and retain the kind of caring and compassionate staff we need to do the job.
For a more compassionate society, we need radically to rethink our attitudes to mental illness and developmental disabilities; not us and them, but all of us together.
It is the second time Loach has scored the top prize at the world's most prestigious film festival and it underlines the fact that now, perhaps more than ever, we need compassionate, angry voices like his.
They should recognise that death is inevitable and not a failure, and make sure dying people get the dignified and compassionate care they need, for example by encouraging the use of more advance care plans.
