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Case Report #10—Euthanasia (Assisted Suicide) or Palliative Sedation

2018· book-chapter· en· W2883648570 on OpenAlexaff
Gilles Plourde

Bibliographic record

VenueProstate Cancer · 2018
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCannabis and Cannabinoid Research
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDignityPalliative careMedicineRight to diePsychiatryAssisted suicideDeath with dignityQuality of life (healthcare)PsychologyPsychotherapistNursingLawPolitical science

Abstract

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The end of life is a difficult moment for patients who are suffering both physically and mentally. Many are requesting euthanasia when they are suffering too much, but this is not easy to obtain, as there are many pros and cons within the medical community and the society regarding euthanasia. As a result, many dying patients will not receive euthanasia even though they strongly request it. Helping patients to die when they are suffering too much should be considered part of good care. Fortunately, we also have palliative care that helps patient manage pain until they die. Euthanasia and palliative care respects the principle of patient dignity, which does not depend on the patient’s usefulness to the society. Instead, human dignity is based on the inherent worth of each human; a value that must not be influenced by external factors. Being human confers a dignity and the right to choose to continue to live with pain or to die in peace; it is not control, but acceptance. It is important to provide people who suffer with the compassion and assistance they need in order to move them toward acceptance until the time of death. The last theme of this chapter discusses the role of cannabis as a good alternative for patients suffering from chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, cancer-associated pain, anorexia and cachexia syndrome, insomnia, depression, and anxiety. However, we recommend the medical-based cannabis for better quality, though the prescription should be performed on a case-by-case basis by a qualified physician.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.004
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0090.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.127
GPT teacher head0.401
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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