Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deaver's account of his perjury conviction in a case brought by an independent counsel draws some sympathy, but his chronicle of building a lobbying business around his old contacts shows little appreciation of the fine lines of ethics and propriety he crossed. His legal appeal is still in progress, but Behind the Scenes is a clear, if inadvertent, plea of guilt to charges of naivete...
...doctor's unflinching account, published anonymously in the Jan. 8 Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first such confession ever to appear in a U.S. medical journal. With stark candor and dramatic detail, it spotlighted one of U.S. medicine's most controversial issues: the extent to which American doctors commit mercy killings. The report has prompted a storm of protest and a flurry of letters to J.A.M.A., most of which were from physicians who condemned the resident's behavior as both illegal and unethical. New York City Mayor Edward Koch was so horrified by the J.A.M.A. account that...
...occur in hospitals more often than most patients realize -- or most doctors are willing to admit. J.A.M.A. Editor George Lundberg says his own staff split over whether or not to publish the piece. But two medical peer- review panels urged him to publish it. Lundberg, who believes the anonymous account is genuine (though J.A.M.A. has made no attempt to verify it), decided to go ahead. "My intent was to produce vigorous debate on a timely topic," he says. "We are technologically capable of prolonging dying at great cost with little apparent benefit...
...J.A.M.A. account of Debbie's death also underscores a fact of medical life: terminally ill cancer patients often suffer unnecessarily because doctors hold back narcotics for fear their patients will become addicted -- even when they have only weeks or months to live. This casts doubt over the profession's reassurances that pain will be controlled. And the dread of unrelenting pain is one factor that may encourage patients and doctors alike to blur the line between letting death occur and causing...
...doctor' s candid account of a mercy killing inflames the profession and renews debate over the care and treatment of the terminally...