Word: comas
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...year-old, made the journey to southern China from Medan in 1996. The transplant was successful, but when he returned for an internal checkup last August something went terribly wrong. His stomach swelled up, his new kidney collapsed and he fell into a coma. A second transplant was ordered. "But the doctor had another plan," says Wiwijaya. "He wanted to give the best kidney to whomever paid the best price." Wiwijaya says his brother was given a lesser match. He died in January, a skeleton on a dialysis machine. "The doctor took his life," Wiwijaya says. "Everybody in that hospital...
...including the U.S., all remain in the neighborhood of the brink, and Japan could still drag the rest of them down if the banks start to go under. But for now, with the U.S. apparently holding its own, Europe feeling confident and Japan in at least a stable coma, the view from the world stage is downright - comparatively, at least - sunny...
HOSPITALIZED. BILL JOHNSON, 40, Olympic downhill-skiing champion in 1984 and the first American man to win a World Cup downhill race; in a coma after crashing face-first on icy slopes at about 45 m.p.h.; in Whitefish, Mont. Johnson was attempting to stage a comeback and remake the Olympic team 17 years after winning gold in Sarajevo...
Robert's case would be simpler if he were in worse shape. Since the groundbreaking New Jersey ruling that in 1976 allowed the parents of coma victim Karen Ann Quinlan to shut off her respirator, California and other states have permitted families to remove life support from comatose or terminally ill patients. Wendland is neither. Given the precedent the Wendland case may set, right-to-life and disability-rights activists have lined up behind Florence, while bioethics professionals and the American Civil Liberties Union are supporting Rose. "This is a vital public-policy case," declares Wesley Smith, author of Culture...
...father board a ride called the Black Dragon at a state fair and disappear from the lives of his wife and two sons, but while trying to stretch a Little League triple into a home run, Noel collides with the opposing catcher and sends him into an irreversible coma. Figuring he will face a murder rap fairly soon, Noel resolves to enjoy himself while...