Index - M

Macabre eroticism, 2

Mahoney, John J., 5

Making Health Care Decisions: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Informed Consent in the Patient-Practitioner Relationship (President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research), 78

Mechanical ventilation, 27-28, 102, 107-108

Medicaid
     AIDS patients, 126-127
     costs, 118
     hospice benefits, 121
     hospice care, states offering, 124t
     Medicaid payments, by type of service, 123(t 9.8)
     recipients and vendor payment by eligibility basis and race/ethnicity, 122t

Medical education
     end-of-life care, 4
     geriatrics, 145-146

Medical issues
     adolescents' medical treatment, 55
     artificial nutrition and hydration, 28, 32t
     cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), 26-27
     causes of death, 21, 22t, 23t-24t
     Christian Science and medical treatment, 55
     curing vs. caring approach to health care, 20
     Down's Syndrome, 44-45
     institutionalization of death, 3-4
     kidney dialysis, 29
     life-sustaining treatments for persistent vegetative state patients, 31-32, 31t, 32t
     mechanical ventilation, 27-28, 102
     neonatology, 41
     prevailing medical standards and practices, 102
     spina bifida treatment, 44
     SUPPORT end-of-life care survey, 21-22, 25-26
     treatment of critically ill infants and children, 48-51, 54-56
     See also Organ and tissue transplantation

Medicare
     beneficiaries with disabilities or end stage renal disease, 127f
     benefit payments by type of service, 123(t 9.7)
     cancer patients, 127-128
     certified hospices, 123(t 9.5)
     comparison of hospital, skilled nursing facility, and hospice charges, 123(t 9.6)
     end-of-life care costs, 129
     enrollees and expenditures by type of service, 120t-121t
     home health care, 121, 123-124, 125(t 9.11)
     hospice benefits, 119-121, 123(t 9.5)

Medicare+Choice, 117-118

Mellert, Robert B., 20

Mental suffering and euthanasia, 77

Mentally incompetent patients. See Incompetent patients

Mercitron, 73

Metabolic brain disorders, 30

Mexican Americans, 18

Middle Ages, 2

Miller, Sherry, 73

Minimally conscious state, 29t

Mortality rates
     cancer, 143t
      cerebrovascular diseases, 144t-145t
     for heart disease, 139t-141t
     infant mortality, 41-42, 42t-43t, 44t, 45t, 46t-47t

Mythology, Greek, 1