Hazel on January 28th, 2010

What a week since I last posted a blog! The news has been a positive playground for medical ethicists!!
IVF clinics reported to be destroying embryos with minor conditions; a ‘genetic breakthrough’ which could help treatments for breast cancer to be tailored to individual need; a mother who forced her son to fake illness being [...]

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Hazel on October 15th, 2009

The subject of suicide (assisted or otherwise) just won’t – pardon the pun – lie down and die. Even in a week where I’ve discovered internet sites devoted to book reviews, (eg. www.dovegreyreader.co.uk and www.meandmybigmouth.typepad.com) had a phonecall out of the blue from Angela Rippon’s agent, and had a big breakthrough for the next book, [...]

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Hazel on July 30th, 2009

Serious week. Calls for a serious blog. Especially from the author of Right to Die.
Because assisted suicide hit the headlines again this week, big time, and some of my readers have contacted me about it. Prompting me to offer a couple of comments.
First the Royal College of Nursing officially withdrew its opposition to seriously [...]

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Hazel on July 16th, 2009

As I mentioned in my previous post, I was away four days last week – no time to keep up to date with the papers. Too busy scattering sheep in darkest Wales, inching through traffic in the tourist mecca that is Devon, and meeting distant relatives at funeral wakes. But trawling through the backlog of [...]

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Hazel on May 21st, 2009

It’s not every day that I receive an envelope bearing the House of Lords crest. So perhaps I can be forgiven for tearing it open casually without noticing – and ruining the envelope in the process! But anyway it was the contents that prompt me to tell you about the experience, not the crest. A [...]

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Hazel on April 30th, 2009

I’ve been quite overwhelmed by the response to my new blog. Many thanks to all of you who have so generously commented. Writing can be a lonely occupation and it’s reassuring to know there are real people out there who read and who care. I even had one email this week from someone in Canada [...]

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