Word: angela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angela Lee '92, a non-resident tutor in publicservice, will also be removed from her positionafter this school year. Lee did not return a phonecall last night...
Before the babies were wheeled into the operating room at 8:05 a.m., Angela made a waving gesture in the air, inspiring her mother to say, "That's right, Angela, thumbs up." The painstaking task of separating the babies was expected to take all day, but after only 5 1/2 hours, the doctors reappeared, and the news was good. "Angela is stable, comfortable, and we hope that will continue to be the case," said Dr. James O'Neill Jr., the lead surgeon. At the same time, relatives were making funeral preparations...
...matter what the outcome, Amy and Angela Lakeberg have become poignant -- and potent -- symbols of one of the most troubling questions regarding health care: Is it morally and medically right to go to such extraordinary lengths when the prospects of success are so small and the financial costs so huge...
...unusual pregnancy and postponed the procedure. She never went back. Though the Lakebergs are Catholic, Reitha, a quiet wisp of a woman, calls her decision mostly personal: "In my heart, I couldn't get rid of my babies." On June 29 she gave birth by Caesarean section; Amy and Angela together weighed just over...
...infants' fused liver could be divided, but the twins had one heart. Even worse, it had six chambers instead of the normal four, with a hole in one chamber and blood from the lungs pumping into the wrong side. The doctors recommended to the Lakebergs that Amy and Angela be allowed to die. "We sort of pleaded with them to take the babies off the ventilator," says neonatologist Dr. Jonathan Muraskas at Loyola University Medical Center in suburban Chicago, who tended the twins from their birth and agonized for weeks before deciding that intervention was futile. "Let's feed them...