Transcript: Commentary: New federal legislation makes it easier for doctors to prescribe powerful painkillers to terminally ill patients while still restricting doctor-assisted suicide

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Commentary: New federal legislation makes it easier for doctors to prescribe powerful painkillers to terminally ill patients while still restricting doctor-assisted suicide

Host: NOAH ADAMS Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

NOAH ADAMS, host:

Commentator Joe Loconte says some of the most hopeful news for terminally ill patients may be coming not from the research lab or the operating room, but from Congress.

JOE LOCONTE:

Several years ago, John Brown--not his real name--was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Treatments at a DC area hospital had failed; he was in pain and it was getting worse. His wife got him into a hospice program and he immediately asked ...

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