How can medical journals help prevent poor medical research?

Some opportunities presented by electronic publishing. The Lancet 1999; 353: 490- 93. Persistent vegetative state How does one respond to the ethical and legal problems raised by a diagnosis of persistent or permanent vegetative state (PVS)?

Strict adherence to the doctrine of the sanctity of life would require carers to continue to maintain the individual, perhaps for many years. However, few would regard this as an appropriate outcome when the person clearly has no capacity to interact with the environment and has no likelihood of recovery. However, the ethical and legal commitment to the sanctity of life has led courts to employ a variety of approaches to this situation in order to find a way in which the person with PVS can be allowed to die.

It is argued that each of the approaches is disingenous and ultimately unhelpful. What the law is doing is endorsing nonvoluntary euthansasia, but dressing it up as something else. This is unhelpful for all concerned and the time has come ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.