Word: borroto
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...injecting 40 cc of air into the veins of his cancer-ridden patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto, Dr. Sander had committed a "morally reprehensible action," and had violated his obligations to his patient and his profession,.said the board. The injection, Sander had testified, was "a senseless act" and not a mercy killing. But no physician, said the board, "can be allowed to perform a senseless act." Two New Hampshire hospitals promptly dropped Dr. Sander from their staffs (two Roman Catholic hospitals had already barred him for life), and the American Academy of General Practice announced he would be suspended from...
...Louis E. Wyman, had fumbled with his thoughts and fumbled with his papers during his summation. Tears were in his eyes as he finished. There had been no murder, he said, and euthanasia was not, therefore, an issue. Rather, as Dr. Sander had testified, 59-year-old Mrs. Abbie Borroto was already dead when he injected air ("Why I did it, I can't tell") into her wasted...
...made up his mind to become a physician after reading Lloyd C. Douglas' Magnificent Obsession, who refused to send bills to people who could not afford to pay them, who sometimes slept, exhausted, on the floor of his office, who in the last few months before Mrs. Borroto's death had become overwrought, mentally and physically fatigued...
...Something Snapped." This week Dr. Sander took the stand and in a calm voice told his story. "I never had any intention of killing Mrs. Borroto," he said. He too, he testified, had thought she was dead when he entered her room. "I can't explain exactly what action I took then. Something snapped. Why I did it I can't tell. It doesn't make sense...
...newsmen covering the Manchester trial, as to many readers of their Page-One stories, the controversy and the drama had ended with the cross-examination of the first witnesses. The defense contention that Mrs. Borroto was dead when Dr. Sander injected air into her veins (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had virtually eliminated the great moral issue that had stirred up the original excitement. "Our biggest problem," wailed one reporter last week, "is to give managing editors the kind of story they want"-a story that was no longer really there...