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MEDICAL MINISTER 1-1-1-1-1-1
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A Chicago minister says there are some >in which a critically ill person has a right to die and it's time doctors and ministers talked about it. The minister is Doctor Paul B. McCleave, head of the American Medical Association's Medicine and Religion department, speaking in Dallas to a luncheon of 250 doctors and clergymen. Doctor McCleave says the physician's creed is to sustain life as long as possible, but a patient * in terminal illness may have a right to die without prolonged efforts that merely delay the inevitable.
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Doctor McCleave says his department was created three years ago and doesn't have pat answers to all problems. But he says doctors and clergymen can help one another if they'll just get together.