"The toll of death is simply staggering worse than I would have predicted," said Arthur Caplan, founding head of the division of medical ethics at the New York University School of Medicine. "COVID has been nothing short of the worst failure of public policy in modern memory."
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In the late morning, on the day she planned to die, in April 2016, Avril Henry went to get the poison from the downstairs bathroom. She walked past the padded rocking chair where she sometimes sat for hours with her feet tilted above her head to ease the swelling in her ankles. She steadied herself against the countertop before reaching up to the top shelf and feeling around for the glass bottles that she had hidden there, behind the toilet cleaner and the baby powder.
“I got it imported illegally,” Avril had said of the drug supply. “It’s quite easy to do, but very risky.” She was at her home in Brampford Speke, a small village in south-west England with 300 residents, a pub called the Lazy Toad, a church, St Peter’s, and a parish council on which Avril had served several terms, earning a reputation as brilliant and steadfast, if sometimes needlessly adversarial.
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NEW YORK, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Continental Who s Who Top Otolaryngologist, Richard Laurence Nass, MD, FACS, is proud to announce the opening of his new location in East Hampton, NY.
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Richard Nass M.D. Sinus, Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist is located primarily in Midtown Manhattan on Madison Avenue, and now has a location in East Hampton. As a highly trained otolaryngologist, Dr. Nass treats ENT conditions, including sinus infections, sinusitis/sinus disease, snoring and sleep apnea, and nasal breathing problems. He performs non-surgical and surgical procedures, including Sinuva and Propel. In addition to his role at his private practice, he serves as a clinical associate professor of otolaryngology at New York University School of Medici
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Ron DeSantis gets vindicated. Image via AP.
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