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Have You Been Put On A List to Be Left to Die?What I am about to reveal is, perhaps, the most shocking evidence I have come across in 50 years of writing about health matters.To say that I am horrified is the biggest understatement of all time.You will be shocked too.It started a while ago.The internet has, for months now been full of stories of patients being asked to sign ‘Do Not Resuscitate Forms or having Do Not Resuscitate forms signed on their behalf. They are known as DNR forms or DNAR forms – for Do Not Attempt Resuscitation.GPs all...

One of the more bitter ironies to emerge from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is that his beloved California Performance Review now risks becoming a monument to what it was supposed to counter - bureaucratic inefficiency. Sacramento is home to many a needless commission, panels that publish reports that no one reads and that never amount to anything. Who would have guessed that the CPR commission and its 2,200-page treatise could become but one more exercise in futility? To be fair, the CPR does have some worthwhile accomplishments to its credit: shorter lines at the DMV and reorganization at the Department...

Dog Praised For Waking Women During Fire POSTED: 2:26 pm EST February 14, 2005 GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Firefighters in Greensboro are praising a dog for alerting two women to a fire in their home early Monday morning. Authorities said Rebecca Hanlin and Dorcas Ellis were asleep when the dog, named Bam, began barking constantly. The barking awakened the women and alerted them to the fire, allowing them to leave the house without harm. "If he wouldn't have woke me up, I wouldn't be here," Hanlin told WXII 12 News. "I'm pretty sure of that." The fire started at about 4:40...

On Oct. 11, 2002, U.S. Sen. John Kerry voted in favor of a resolution authorizing President Bush to go to war against Iraq. That decision has haunted Kerry ever since, as it should. With that vote, a man who learned firsthand about the tragedy of fighting an ill-conceived war with no clear-cut goals agreed to commit another generation to another such war. Today, Kerry claims that the only reason he voted to authorize war was to strengthen the president's hand in negotiating with Iraq. As Kerry points out, Bush was publicly insisting back then that he had made no decision...