May her career be in terminal condition.
The GP used the CDSS for 143 patients, of whom 123 were more than 65 years old (mean age 81.4 years, range 65 96), could be weighed and were not in terminal condition.
It concerns an elderly woman who has filled out a living will that sanctions withholding and withdrawal of life support only is she is "in a terminal condition or a state of permanent unconsciousness" but includes no other medical situations.
It is meant to be activated when you are unable to say what you do or do not want to be done medically — if, for example, you are in a terminal condition, your heart and breathing cease, you are in a persistent vegetative state because of severe brain damage or you are too demented to understand the situation.
Moreover, the paramedics were struck by the patient's general appearance; it did not suggest that the patient was in a terminal condition caused by the patient's disease.
The patients' advance directive specifies that life support be withheld or withdrawn when it " serves only to prolong the process of me dying, if I should be in a terminal condition or a state of permanent unconsciousness".
The Linlathen East Iron Bridge, which is thought to be the oldest constructed from iron in Scotland, had been left without maintenance for almost a century and had fallen victim to the elements and vandalism, with experts describing it as being in a "terminal condition".
I direct my physician to withhold or withdraw life support that serves only to prolong the process of me dying if I should be in a terminal condition or a state of permanent unconsciousness.
Clearly this is not the case as resources are allocated for many interventions in terminal conditions that generate no fiscal benefits for government.
Coal is in terminal decline worldwide.
An earlier diagnosis (such as on her first hospital admission) is unlikely to have changed the prognosis in this lady with widespread carcinoma, but it should be remembered that definitive diagnosis is not purely an academic pursuit in terminal conditions.
