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...that patients whose brains do not function and who show no prospect of recovery should be taken off expensive life support measures. The report argues that if a patient has no brain function--even if he breathes and has a pulse--he is dead. The committee accepted as its criteria for death the Harvard standard, developed by a committee at the Medical School...
...Jersey judge failed to make that standard a legal one when he ruled that the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan could not allow her to expire. Quinlan is comatose and cannot speak or think. She also cannot live without the mechanical support of an artificial respirator; by the Harvard criteria she is dead...
Still, the designation of DNR patients is of dubious legality and hospitals do not give official approval of its practice. Without criteria clearly designating moribund patients for DNR classification, doctors are operating within a grey area. In ambiguous cases, they have no standard guidelines for this crucial judgment...
...when blue blood rather than brains was the basic criteria for admission to Harvard, the Manter Hall School would tutor applicants until they could pass the special entrance exam administered by the College. Once admitted, Manter Hall would tutor them in their courses, to ensure at least a gentleman...
...articles are very categorical. Her theories are in outline form. She is very organized. As a guest lecturer on lying and deception in a Kennedy School seminar, she outlined three reasons why people feel it is safe to lie. When the lecture and discussion were over these three criteria were all that many of the students had bothered writing down...