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Guided to my destination (triple helix - Easter 2010)

In all the frenzied media debate about euthanasia and assisted suicide, the question of what lies beyond death is almost never raised. Thirty years ago, CMF's best selling book was published posthumously. 1 Its concluding passage is immensely relevant. A young family doctor, James Casson died of a malignancy in...

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Joanna Thompson, 1949-2009 (triple helix - Christmas 2009)

Joanna Thompson, who died on 24 July 2009 after a short illness, was the head of CareConfidential, a department of the well-known Christian charity CARE. She devoted her life to helping desperate women struggling with the crisis of unexpected pregnancy or with problems following abortion, and her deep faith and...

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new Alzheimer's genes discovered (nucleus - Christmas 2009)

A British-led study has discovered two new genes believed to be associated with Alzheimer's, with a French-led study uncovering a third. The Britishled study has been hailed as 'the biggest advance in Alzheimer's research in 15 years'; genetic faults are thought to account for 60-80% of an individual's risk of...

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Submission to GMC: end of life treatment and care (13/07/2009)

Text of an online submission from the Christian Medical Fellowship to the General Medical Council on End of life treatment and care: Good practice in decision making A...
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Medical Study Group member on end-of-life guidance

5th June 2009: https://http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2009/jun/03/gmc-end-of-life-care

(published: The Guardian)

Living through bereavement (triple helix - Easter 2009)

Owen is a retired minister whose wife died after they had been together for 45 years. He has shared the journey of bereavement with others, and travelled the road himself. The first two chapters brilliantly take us through the biblical view of death and the afterlife, before moving on to...

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Care of the cancer patient (triple helix - Easter 2009)

This book is a palliative care textbook by Finegan, a recently deceased CMF member and palliative care physician, and McGurk, a nurse. It covers a wide range of issues pertinent to those looking after patients with cancer. There is a large section on communication skills, an A-Z overview of how...

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Spiritual support in palliative care (triple helix - Easter 2009)

Dying is a multidimensional experience. It is not just a physical demise, and as doctors we must strive to identify and meet the multidimensional needs of people with progressive disease. Centuries ago, spiritual care dominated end of life care. Although palliative care set out 40 years ago to address the...

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GMF launches end of life treatment and care consultation

6th April 2009: The General Medical Council on 27 March 2009 launched a consultation on new draft guidance, End of life treatment and care: Good practice in decision-making. CMF was asked to make comments on an earlier draft of the guidance and...
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Euthanasia survey: British doctors neither do it nor want it

27th March 2009: https://http://www.carenotkilling.org.uk/?show=709
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