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After arguing that postponing death by extraordinary means is not what is best for the patient, Colen turns to other significant medical ethics questions...
...CONSIDER Colen's bizarre interview with one physician who delivered a severely deformed child: "This monstrosity was breathing," the doctor told Colen...
...doctor make the correct decision? It is far from obvious, Colen writes, that the only humane thing to do was to let the baby die, that "quality of life" considerations dictated the doctor's actions. Confronted with a life-and-death decision, most people would stop at nothing to remain alive, Dr. Nathan Schnaper, one of Colen's sources, says. "There's a place in Mexico," he told Colen, "which serves meconium cocktails." Meconium is the feces in the intestinal tracts of infants, and the drinkers believe it will help you live longer...
...each case Colen deals with, he assumes the role of not just reporter, but therapist as well. People often reveal to him things that they had never known about themselves, things that were hidden in their subconscious. Interestingly, guilt is not among the feelings of those who made life-death decisions similar to the Quinlans' last year. They simply believe they made the right decisions...
...months ago, two Boston hospitals--Beth Israel and Massachusetts General--revealed their policies on death and the ethics of treatment. In considering the implications of that revelation--the first officially stated policy for letting people die--Colen's presentation of death is invaluable; we must each decide if medical ethics are being properly handled. But don't read Karen Ann Quinlan to find out about a comatose New Jersey woman. Colen uses Karen Quinlan, the patient, only to introduce the many unanswered medical ethics questions. He leaves Karen Quinlan, the woman, in peace...