Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most difficult ethical question facing medicine today is: Are the donors really dead? As a neurosurgeon, I speak for the speechless, the so-called brain dead. When I must make the decision to terminate life support for my patient so that another may live, I feel unclean. I decry the dehumanization of our profession today. We are being asked to place the welfare of the next patient on a recipient list above the best interests of our own patient. The criteria for brain death can be too loosely applied these days, especially if there is a publicity campaign...
...physicians' greatest fear was that Clark had suffered a stroke. To check, they ordered sophisticated X-ray images of the brain and heart, using a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner. In Clark's case, this proved to be a major undertaking. The scanner is on the first floor, and Clark is tethered by two 6-ft. tubes to 375 Ibs. of equipment that powers his heart and is in turn plugged into outlets for electricity and compressed air. Clark had to be switched to an auxiliary battery and air-supply system that allows temporary mobility. Then...
...gift giving simple. But once again, war up staged commercialism as pleas for money for Vietnam POWs cropped up among the more standard acts. Music, however, remained introspective. Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters," Joe Walsh's "The smoker you drink, the player you get," and Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" are a sampling of that decade's musical fare...
Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) will receive $1.9 million from IBM over the next five years to refine the technology which may lead to dramatic break-throughs in cancer prevention, heart disease, and a variety of disorders affecting the brain and nervous system...
...pathetic that the Administration would gladly pressure Israel by withholding aid, but backs off implementing a similar policy in so many other countries. Besides pursuing its business-as-usual policy in Central America, Washington also recently decided to life the grain embargo against the Soviet Union. The White House brain trust erroneously believed such a policy could work but realistically calculated that the political backlash from farmers would be too great to maintain the ban. No such qualms sidetracked the Administration in its attempt to detail the Israel appropriations bill. Maybe the socalled "Jewish Lobby" on Capitol Hill...