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There are about 10,000 other Americans in Nancy Jobes' predicament, a hopeless twilight known to doctors as a "permanent vegetative state." For their families, they are a constant source of anguish, and there is a tremendous financial burden (as much as $100,000 a year, usually paid by insurance). These patients pose a knotty ethical dilemma for doctors as well --a conflict between the duty to sustain life and the obligation to relieve suffering. With few professional guidelines to help them resolve the conflict, doctors have frequently decided to continue treatment because of their moral qualms or fear...
...there is enough sweet irony in her voice to suggest that she has looked into the face of her teenage pal Andie (Molly Ringwald) and seen just why the Fountain of Youth is laced with citric acid. Teenhood is the pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make the Iran-Iraq war seem congenial by comparison. Emotions newly discovered are unique and convulsive. She loves me! Life hates me! How anyone endures this seven-year manic-depressive itch is a mystery even to those...
...painted and things named, the other with his mock- scientific glosses. But this is no bad paternity for an artist to have, and the slightly skittish intelligence of Winters' paintings is bound to appeal to those sated (as who is not?) by routine parades of gut sincerity and pantomime anguish...
...been years since he had formally and respectfully addressed blank paper with only pen or pencil in hand. He felt unarmed, vulnerable. He thought of final exams long years ago--the fields of rustling blue-book pages, the universal low, frantic scratching of pens, the smell of sour collegiate anguish...
...legal reforms that the doctors want, and the lawyers oppose, are technical but important. For example, the A.M.A. proposes eliminating punitive damages, and seeks a cap on "noneconomic" damages awarded for pain and suffering or mental anguish, which it says account for 80% of the dollars paid over the $100,000 level. It also wants a victim's compensation from such sources as medical or unemployment insurance deducted from court awards. Most bitingly, the doctors have called for a slidingscale limit on "contingency fee" arrangements, whereby lawyers take on a case for a sizable share (often one-third...