考研英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析 14 英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析( 14) The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicid e carry important implications for how medicine seeks to reliev e dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect", a centuries-old mora l principle holding that an action having two effects-a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen-is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justif y using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients' pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death." e Annas, chair of the health law department at Bosto n University, maintains that, as long asa doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothin g illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. "It' s like surgery, "he says. "We don't call those deaths homicide s because the doctors didn't intend to kill their patients, although they ris
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