Index - W

Waiting lists, organ transplantation, 32-33, 37t

Wantz, Marjorie, 73

Washington v. Glucksberg, 112

"What's Wrong with Making Assisted Suicide Legal?" (O'Steen and Balch), 65-66

White Americans
     cancer incidence and mortality rates by site, 143t
     cerebrovascular diseases, death rates for, 144t-145t
     death rates for heart diseases, 139t-141t
     hospice care discharges by length of stay, 5t
     infant mortality, 41-42, 42t-43t, 44t, 45t, 46t-47t
     low birthweight infants, 49t-50t, 51t-53t, 54t
     Medicaid recipients and vendor payment by eligibility basis, 122t
     nursing home residents, 126t
     premature infants, 49t-50t
     suicide rates, 58t-60t

"Will to Live," 81

Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment
     clear and convincing evidence standard for, 109-111
     nursing homes' rights, 106-107
     persistent vegetative state patients, 32, 32t
     physician-assisted suicide, as distinct from, 113
     physician liability, 105
     prevailing medical standards and practices, 102
     Quinlan, Karen Ann, 101-102
     standards of proof, 107-108
     three tests, 104-105

Women, older, 143-144

World Medical Association, 16