'85 murder case tests limits of patient confidentiality: judge considers letting psychiatrist testify.

KIE: Concerns testimony by psychiatrist Michael Stone in the case of Robert Bierenbaum.^ieng

Patient confidentiality at issue in 1985 murder case.

KIE: Concerns testimony by psychiatrists Michael Stone and Stanley Bone in the case of Robert Bierenbaum.^ieng

Cancer researcher in South Africa who falsified data is fired.

KIE: Concerns the misconduct case of Werner Bezwoda in South Africa.^ieng

Judge bars testimony in murder case, citing doctor-patient privilege.

KIE: Concerns the testimony of three psychiatrists in the case of Robert Bierenbaum.^ieng

Love and let die.

When the very technology that can save lives is only prolonging death, how should a patient decide whether to stop treatment--or help death along? In the last days of a ravaging disease, patients and their families face all but unbearable decisions. Is there a right to die? To commit suicide? To be killed on request? As the private dilemmas multiply, they have become the public province of interest groups, policymakers and the U.S. Supreme Court.