Word: annelies
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...Mary Ann Larssen North Miami, Fla. Barber's Gauge
Colen is the Post's medical ethics expert and has written extensively on euthanasia and surgery. He "broke" the Karen Ann Quinlan story with a series of articles for which he received a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Since then, Karen Ann Quinlan's name has become famous, the result of some responsible reporting and a lot of sensationalism. But in Colen's book, Karen Ann Quinlan: Dying in the Age of Eternal Life, he doesn't waste time delving into Karen Quinlan's past or describing her present physical condition in gory detail. Instead, he concentrates on the difficult questions that...
...This is not a book about the substance of Karen Ann Quinlan's life," Colen writes. "It is, instead, a book about the meaning of her dying and death." So Colen mentions only in passing that Karen Quinlan mixed drugs with alcohol and lapsed into a coma on the night of April 14 last year. The real Karen Ann Quinlan story began long after she lost consciousness and her parents, Joseph and Julia Quinlan, had given up hope. The Quinlans asked Karen's physicians to remove the respirator that kept her alive--or rather kept her from dying...
...Jersey Supreme Court eventually ruled in the Quinlans' favor earlier this year, but not before the story had grabbed considerable attention in the national press. The most interesting fact the news stories revealed was not that Karen Ann Quinlan quit going to church, or that Joseph and Julia Quinlan are parents only by adoption, or even that many "hopeless" comatose patients have recovered; these things only detract from the significance of the Quinlan case. The important discovery was that respirators had been unplugged earlier all over the country--sometimes without even the permission of the families involved. Some doctors...
...revealed their policies on death and the ethics of treatment. In considering the implications of that revelation--the first officially stated policy for letting people die--Colen's presentation of death is invaluable; we must each decide if medical ethics are being properly handled. But don't read Karen Ann Quinlan to find out about a comatose New Jersey woman. Colen uses Karen Quinlan, the patient, only to introduce the many unanswered medical ethics questions. He leaves Karen Quinlan, the woman, in peace...