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...hemispherectomy? "I never recommend this operation," says Neurosurgeon Charles W. Burklund. "It can only be done on a select few patients. Then, because of the risk, the final decision must be theirs." Says Mrs. Coe: "He didn't want to be a burden and lie in a coma for months." So they agreed that he should have the operation...
...been added to the electorate since passage of the 1965 voting Rights Act and abolition of the poll tax. Negro precincts and the largest metropolitan areas voted heavily against the Byrd candidates. Harry Byrd Sr., 79, was spared the bad news: on primary day he lay in a deep coma at his Berryville estate, suffering from a malignant brain tumor...
There were signs last week that it may eventually be the Buddhists who crack. Everything else having failed, Buddhist Ringleader Thich Tri Quang went on a hunger strike, by week's end had lapsed into a near coma that at least served the purpose of keeping him quiet. Thich Tam Chau, spokesman of the Buddhist hierarchy's moderate wing, publicly broke with Tri Quang and the militants. Tri Quang, said Tam Chau, has "no authority to promulgate any decisions" of the hierarchy, adding, "I am not for bringing Buddha into the streets." And in a swift, virtually bloodless...
...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...