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...against the pecuniary and social tragedies of his brief life. The story is further spiced with a succession of sometimes amusing, and always appropriate, anecdotes. (We are told, for example, about the occasion in a Swedish maternity clinic when his Piano Concerto K 467 was successfully used to ease childbirth...
Atlanta Journalist Roger Witherspoon and his wife Cynthia lost their first child, a daughter, in childbirth. A year and a half later, when Cynthia prematurely went into labor with their son Dax after only 22 weeks of pregnancy, the obstetrician warned them that the infant's lungs had almost certainly not developed enough for survival. Extraordinary measures could be tried if the parents wished to subject the baby to the process. Witherspoon's account of their decision...
...Walter Johnson. Another, he says, is the uncertain cost. "We do not know where we're going, who we're talking about, how many people we're talking about." Supporters counter that the new single beneficiaries will be younger (thus healthier), yet not likely to make childbirth claims. And with even a majority of nongay San Franciscans supporting the idea, political pressures may force the board to go along...
...flashbacks, the two re-create some of the central experiences of a 63-year life together- courtship, childbirth, child rearing, physical decline, death - the homely parabola of existence. Their youngest son Dillard (Keith Carradine) appears. He is a country-music star whose wife has walked out, leaving their two small children with him. He describes her as "the fastest credit card in the South." Dillard asks his mother if she always loved his father. Her flash answer epitomizes the play's categorical imperative: "We was married!" Duty omnia vincit. But after a pause, her further answer shows...
...There are very sincere women who feel that the technology being applied to childbirth is unnecessary, and that teaching hospitals use too much technology, "says Wacker, acknowledging the need for continuing discussion. But the questions raised about UHS go beyond choice of technique and involve the University's responsibility to prove to women that they receive the best health care possible...