For 16 years, Mrs. Maldonado fought infertility with high-tech intervention and no-tech prayer.
In addition to removing financial incentives for high-tech intervention, we need to educate clinicians in the impartial, critical analysis of all therapeutic options, and in supporting their patients as they act on the choices they make.
I am firmly of the belief that high-tech intervention is as sacred as nature.
'Women with low-risk pregnancies are to be encouraged to have high-tech, intervention-heavy deliveries which will lead to a rise in the number of caesarean and forceps births and postnatal complications".
He blamed his fellow citizens' love affair with high-tech interventions for spiralling costs.
Third, our clinical findings are also comparable to reported effects of other high-tech interventions for depression.
In July, despite a full volley of high-tech interventions, he died, without ever having done anything volitional, never mind eating, talking or making eye contact.
Catholic doctrine doesn't mandate futile medical treatments or high-tech interventions for the dying, Father Hehir said; it supports hospice and palliative care.
Instead of providing antibiotics, CT scans and high-tech interventions, Partners in Health considers basic necessities like food and housing as critical components of the group's medical work.
But as the main character in Dr. Gordon's book puts it, "I wish more people knew the misery of 'everything.' " Too many families equate the failure to provide life support with "killing" the patient, Dr. Gordon has found, But, he insists, doctors who eliminate high-tech interventions are not killing patients.
As the former emphasis on preventive care during the Maoist era has given way to a market-driven pursuit of high-tech interventions, changes in the political economy of health care have transformed China's urban medical system into a laboratory for entrepreneurial tactics.
