Special Issue on Death and Dying
Editorial
Dedication to Fred C. Holschuh, MD
Norman Goldstein MD
249
Good Life--Good Death
Norman Goldstein MD
249
HMA President's Message
John S. Spangler MD
249
Military Medicine
Dateline: Boualapha, Laos
Ben Berg MD
250
An Emergency Physician's Perspective on Death with Dignity
Frederick C. Holschuh MD
252
Death with Dignity: The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide
Norman Goldstein MD, FACP
255
Choosing to Die
Max G. Botticelli MD
257
The Elderly and Disabled in Hawaii
Ah Quon McElrath
258
Cultural Issues in Death and Dying
Kathryn L. Braun DrPH, Rhea Nichols MSW
260
An Attitudinal Survey of Euthanasia in Windward Oahu,
A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study of Four Age Groups
Timothy Littlejohn and Jeanne Burrows-Johnson
265
Euthanasia: Murder or Mercy?
Kenneth W. Phifer
270
Why I Do Not Believe in Mercy Killing
S.Y. Tan MD, JD
273
Lethal Aid--Physician or Lawyer-Assisted Suicide?
James H. Pietsch JD
274
St. Francis Hospice: Medicare and Health Care Reform
Michael A. Warren RN, BSN, MA
276
Life and Death in Hawaii: Ethnic Variations in Life Expectancy
and Mortality, 1980-1990
Kathryn L. Braun DrPH, Haiou Yang PhD, Alvin T. Onaka PhD,
Brian Y. Horiuchi MPH
278
Models of Physician-Assisted Dying
Faye Girsh EdD
284
A View of Death and Dying Among the Chinese and Japanese
Donald F.B. Char MD, K.S. Tom MD, George C.K. Young, Rev.
Toshio Murakami, Roger Ames PhD
286
Death with Dignity: There's Plenty More that We Can Do
R. Gary Johnson MD
291
Care of the Dying at the John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawaii
Leslie Q. Tam PhD
293
To Die or Not to Die - Is that the Question?
Educating Physicians about End-of-Life Care
Richard MacDonald MD
294
How Hawaii Doctors Feel about Physician-Assisted Suicide
and Euthanasia: An Overview
Lorene K. Siaw MD and S.Y. Tan MD, JD
296
Lives in the Balance '96--A Letter to Members of Hemlock Hawaii
Mikki Lawson
299
Primary Care Update--Highlights of the HMA Scientific Section
Elizabeth Adams MD
301
Classified Ads
302
Index to the Hawaii Medical Journal, Volume 55, 1996
Carolyn S.H. Ching and Christine Sato
304
Weathervane
Russell T. Stodd MD
310