Word: comas
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...chronically unstable, aggressively hostile toward his younger brother, going so far as to distribute leaflets urging people to vote against his re-election as a state representative. In 1973, at the age of 42, Stelian was hit by a car while riding his bike; he slipped into a coma and died four months later...
...last February. On that occasion, 39 pledges at two of Princeton's notoriously wet eating clubs had wound up in the infirmary or the hospital after having been led, blindfolded, through a rite at which club members helped to pour liquor down their throats. One student lay in a coma for 24 hours...
...invented psychoanalysis. Throughout his life, Freud sought to maintain control. In his final hours, suffering through the last stages of throat cancer in 1939, he told the physician who had accompanied him to England to "make an end of it." The doctor obediently administered enough morphine to induce a coma from which the patient never awakened...
...night of the initiation party, 46 students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, one of them a 19 year-old sophomore who fell into an alcohol-induced coma and nearly died...
Many physicians insist, however, that the long hours of residency are a critical part of medical education. "Illness knows no shift," says Dr. Robert Petersdorf, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Such ailments as diabetic coma or toxic shock, he notes, can progress over 36 hours. "You have to follow the history of the particular illness." Others point out that if shifts are significantly shortened, medical residencies might have to be lengthened to ensure that trainees get enough experience. With residencies already lasting from three years for internal medicine to seven years for neurosurgery, few young doctors would...