John Wallace's Physician Assisted Suicide
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In Physician Assisted Suicide, it talks about John Wallace a 72-year-old with metastatic pancreatic cancer. It ended up spreading to lymph nodes and liver. While being treated with palliative chemo therapy, the disease kept spreading. Mr. Wallace saw a palliative care physician and social worker occasionally when he needed it to cope with his illness. He was taking narcotics that help his lower abdominal pain that was increasing in pain, but it caused him to have constipation. He understood his prognosis of the disease, but he did not want to spend his last days suffering in an unresponsive state. While being studied, Mr. Wallace as an individual was researched at only one point in time making this a cross-sectional study. There is an art