MATH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Special Service Force, Postmedia News, Montreal General Hospital
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When treatment becomes a matter of life and death. By sharon kirkey, postmedia news december 14, 2013. It took six days for the patient to die. She was 48 years old, with curly blond hair and no signs of the physical wasting away that so often occurs with advanced cancer. But her bowel was completely blocked from a rare and aggressive form of bladder cancer. She had uncontrollable vomiting and excruciating abdominal pain. Borod realized death was near, and that she was suffering. He knew she had to make a decision. She was awake and lucid when, with her full consent, he injected her with a drug normally used to make surgery patients unconscious. She would sleep until she died - in her case, a week. Borod hugged her tightly before he started the infusion. Then he walked alone to his office, closed the door behind him and cried.
