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Subcommittee this morning, the possibility of putting out -
- we are not ready for that yet because we need to get
recommendations further along, but putting out a draft
report and getting feedback.
In part of that I think we do need to get
feedback on this from people who work in the field,
including the kinds of comments that Laurie has offered.
That is one thing I think would be very useful for us. If
there is agreement we will work out some way to do that.
Alex?
MR. CAPRON: I think we have heard enough that
before that report goes out we have got to go back to the
drawing board to a certain extent because like the Tissues
Committee we simplified and Larry was urging simplification
before, and no more than so many categories, but we may
have gone beyond Einstein's dictum that we should make
things as simple as possible and no simpler.
Because the desire not to distinguish between
more than minimal risk and things which impose severe pain
or threaten life or function, bodily functions, and the
different -- the failure to differentiate between those of
permanent loss of decision making capacity when our real
focus in this has been those who have some diminished but
often fluctuating and often varied capacities, the capacity