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Charles Oliver | 12.21.2015 6:00 AM


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In England, the East Kent Hospitals National Health Service Trust has apologized for placing a "do not recusitate" order on a patient with Down Syndrome without consulting his family. The order listed his learning disabilities among the reasons not to try to recusitate him. 

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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