Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right-to-die questions generate powerful sparks of moral friction. They clash against two basic values, says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, an ethics think tank. "One is the sanctity of life, with its religious roots; the other is the technological imperative to do everything possible to save...
Cases that involve the withdrawal of a feeding tube, as opposed to a respirator or heavy mechanical support, pose particular problems. The American Medical Association and many ethicists believe even artificial nutrition and hydration is a medical treatment that may be withdrawn from terminally ill or irreversibly comatose patients. But...
The issues in the Cruzan case are ultimately both profound and perplexing. "If only the ambulance had arrived five minutes earlier," muses Joe Cruzan, "or five minutes later." But even as he muses, and as the Supreme Court ponders, other ambulances are reaching other patients at that same fateful juncture...
Works fine, he reported. Not only do muggers edge away nervously, but Keillor thinks up a lot of good material as he mumbles. Thus the new show: recycled mugger-repellent. What kind of new show? Some comedy, centered more in the present than the nostalgic P.H.C. was, he said a...
Was this just P.H.C. at the Plaza? Sure. Maybe. No. There was, of course, a rambling dispatch from Lake Wobegon (Pastor Ingqvist, Keillor reported with approval, shocked his congregation at Thanksgiving by urging them to "sin boldly"). Tom Keith, P.H.C.'s sound-effects wizard, was on hand to provide, among...