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...with a rare genetic condition that left him with holes in his heart. If his condition deteriorated, doctors wanted to allow Luke to die; last November he did. A similar case is currently going through the British courts involving Charlotte Wyatt, a 17-month-old girl suffering from serious brain, lung and kidney damage. Physicians say the child, who's already been resuscitated three times, should not be revived again; the parents disagreed and have been back to court with evidence that the baby's condition had improved. A ruling is expected in April...
...teachers, engineers and other skilled workers - are leaving in droves. The U.S. State Department says that 1,200 doctors trained in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, but by 2001, only 360 remained; some 18,000 nurses departed, too. The situation is now even worse. "It's no longer just a brain drain; it's much broader," says human-rights lawyer Daniel Molokele, who left Bulawayo for Johannesburg two years ago. "This is not just a question of leaving for greener pastures. This is a direct result of the lack of confidence in the future of Zimbabwe...
...February 1990, Terri Schiavo collapsed from an apparent heart attack that resulted in severe brain damage, leaving her in a state of incapacity. For the subsequent fifteen years, Schiavo’s husband and sole legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, has been fighting to obstruct her road to recovery. In 1993, when doctors believed that Terri Schiavo’s condition was improving, Michael Schiavo began to impede her treatment, going as far as inserting a “Do Not Resuscitate” order in her medical files and ordering medical staff to deny her antibiotics for a developing...
...second hot-button issue this case presents is the issue of patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Patients in PVSs, sadly, do not appear to be unaware, even though they are. A CT scan of Schiavo’s brain (available at http://www.miami.edu/ethics/schiavo/CT%20scan.png) reveals that the majority of her brain is liquefied. But, sadly, to a hopeful parent, movements and sounds can indicate some sort of response rather than reflex. Cases involving PVSs—and there are many—often are difficult for precisely that reason...
...Harvard students vowed yesterday not to eat solid foods until brain-damaged 41-year old Terri Schiavo is reconnected to a life-sustaining tube—or until she dies in her Florida hospital...