accommodation packages for Fraser Island including flatboat crossings, camp gear and National Parks permits are available. AUSSIE TRAX FRASER ISLAND 4X4 SELF DRIVE TOURS HERVEY BAY Aussie Trax 4X4 Rentals not only supplies the four wheel drives, but also books all ferry transfers, organizes National Park permits and has a wide range of camping and accommodated options to suit any guests wishing to package together their entire Fraser Island holiday. Through their two great locations at Hervey Bay or on the island at Kingfisher Bay, they can tailor a package to suit guests requirements. ( )56. If Mr. Green wants someone to arrange all the details of his holiday on the Fraser Island, which one should he turn to?
A. Fraser Dingo Four Wheel Drive Adventures Hire
C. Aussie Trax 4X4 Rentals
D. None of them B. Fraser Magic 4WD
( )57. When visiting the Fraser Island, tourists are likely to experience all EXCEPT ______.
A. taking an overnight walk B. comprehensive camping
C. getting close to the wildlife on the bay D. flatboat crossing B
The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeds to relieve 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
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principle of “double effects”, a centuries-old moral 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 justify 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 \now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death.\
George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. \deaths homicides because the doctors didn't intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you're a physician, you can risk your patient's suicide as long as you don't intend their suicide.\
On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony（痛苦） of dying.
Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of \medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying\as the twin problems of end-of-life care.
The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life.
Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. “Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering,” to the extent that it constitutes “systematic patient abuse.” He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear ... that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension（暂停）.”
( )58. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that_____________
A. doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients' pain. B. it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives. C. the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide. D. patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide.
( )59. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
A. Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients' death. B. Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery.
C. The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be prescribed.
D. A doctor's medication is no longer justified by his intentions. ( )60. Which of the following best defines the word “aggressive\3, paragraph 7 ) ?
A. Bold. B. Harmful. C. Careless. D. Desperate.
( )61. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished
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A. manage their patients incompetently medicine than needed
C. reduce drug dosages for their patients D. prolong the needless suffering of the patients C
For an increasing number of students at American universities, Old is suddenly in. The reason is obvious: the graying of America means jobs, coupled with the aging of the baby-boom generation, a longer life span means that the nation’s elderly population is bound to expand significantly over the next 50 years. By 2050, 25 percent of all Americans will be older than 65, up from 14 percent in 1995.The change poses profound questions for government and society, of course. But it also creates career opportunities in medicine and health professions and in law and business as well. “In addition to the doctors, we’re going to need more sociologists, biologists, urban planners and specialized lawyers,” says Professor Edward Schneider of the University of Southern California’s (USC) School of Gerontology（老年学）.
Lawyers can specialize in “elder law”, which covers everything from trusts and estates to nursing-home abuse and age discrimination. Businessmen see huge opportunities in the elder market because the baby boomers, 74 million strong, are likely to be the wealthiest group of retirees in human history. “Any student who combines an expert knowledge in gerontology with, say, an MBA or law degree will have a license to print money,” one professor says.
Margarite Santos is a 21-year-old senior at USC. She began college as a biology major but found she was “really bored with bacteria.” So she took
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