New rules aim to alleviate the problem.
Specifically, a physician is culpable if the intent is to kill but not if the intent is to alleviate suffering even with a foreseeable outcome of death ensuing as a direct consequence.
The intent is to alleviate symptoms and prolong survival, while minimizing complications due to the operation itself.
Indeed, like Thomas above, most physicians in this study referred to end-of-life practices where their explicit intent was to alleviate suffering even though their patient sometimes died during that process.
Treatments that can be curative at another point in the disease trajectory may acquire a palliative intent – for example the use of radiotherapy to alleviate pain.
One purpose of the program was to alleviate unemployment, but the roads also appealed to German nationalism and had a strong militaristic intent.
The missile test, in April, was a failure, but that did little to alleviate concerns within the Obama administration that Mr. Kim was intent on pushing ahead with its nuclear weapons program.
It has been incorporated into the treatment regimens of major tumor histologies with curative intent, and is broadly applied for almost any tumor type in the metastastic setting to alleviate symptoms.
The 45-page report also asserted that the Treasury, in defiance of what the panel claimed was Congress's clear intent when it passed the bailout bill in October, had taken "no steps to use any of this money to alleviate the foreclosure crisis".
