Example: A stateâs law defines aggravated battery as âintentional and harmful physical contact with another with the intent to maim or disfigure.â This is a specific intent crime because it requires that the defendant not only cause harmful contact, but also with the purpose of maiming or disfiguring the victim.
the staging of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease copd includes four stages with the last stage often referred to as end stage though stage iv or end stage may be a clinical term for the last of the four stages in the standard copd staging guidelines it certainly doesn t mean the end stage of one s life
Participants included patients with end stage cancer and their caregivers. Patients qualified as âend stageâ if they had distant metastases, disease that was refractory to one or more lines of chemotherapy, and life expectancy of six months or less.The patients had a variety of cancers including those of the lung, colon, pancreas, and breast.hemotherapy for patients with end stage cancer did not improve quality of life in those with poor or moderate performance status and worsened it in those with good performance status, US researchers have found. 1.