Word: comas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life. It came when a man stopped breathing and his heart stopped beating. Today, that definition needs added definition. With mechanical heart and breathing aids, and intravenous feedings, doctors can keep patients technically alive in hospitals for months or even years while they are in a deep coma...
...planned to detach the pump from his patient's chest but leave the ¾-in plastic tubes implanted. They might come in handy later. At week's end DeRudder's condition had the doctors baffled. The pump was working extremely well, but he remained in a coma. If he had suffered brain damage, the cause remained obscure. Dr. DeBakey could only hope that this difficulty would eventually clear...
Children afflicted with the disease exhibit a built-in aversion to meat and milk products, and often go into a diabetes-like coma after eating these foods...
Died. Rabbi Morris Adler, 59, head of Detroit's Shaaray Zedek Synagogue and a leader of U.S. Conservative Judaism, who during a service last month was shot by a deranged student (who then killed himself); after four weeks in a coma; in Detroit...
...close. At his seaside villa on Cap Ferrat, going deaf and blind, Maugham complained bitterly at the way time's slow hand was writing his last chapter. "I am sick of this way of life," he said. "I want to die." Earlier this month, he sank into a coma following a stroke. The 91-year-old heart beat six days longer in a hospital outside Nice. And then last week it stopped...