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...used to send the dollar to the grocery with orders to bring back a pound of coffee. I figured this would teach it humility. Instead, it went into a severe depression which psychiatry couldn't cure because it has no way of treating a dollar unless accompanied by 34 others, which I didn't have at the time...
...case of Dinnerstein, however, treatment would have been "a mere suspension of the act of dying," the court said. The case of a patient near death such as Dinnerstein presented "no significant treatment choice or election" because "attempts to apply resuscitation, if successful, will do nothing to cure or relieve the illnesses which will have brought the patient to the threshold of death...
Rent control is not the answer to the avaricious increasing of rents by landlords. In my opinion, the only cure, excepting a serious recession, for our galloping inflation is an excess profits...
...Hemodialysis is a lifesaving remedy, though not a cure. Thrice weekly, patients with kidney failure get hooked up to a machine that filters toxic body wastes from the blood. The technique works, no question; the problem is money: about $25,000 a year in special centers, about half that if the treatment can be performed at home. Since 1973, the government has picked up the tab for dialysis (as well as for kidney transplant operations). The program now covers some 44,000 patients at an annual cost of more than $1 billion. By the 1980s the projection...
Doctors agree that many of the new high-technology practices do not necessarily cure disease or even prolong life, but that should not be the only gauge of a technique's value. If the quality of life can be improved, they argue, that is sufficient justification for using it. Besides, says Dr. Cheves Smythe, professor of medicine at the University of Texas in Houston: "Our country doesn't believe in putting people on a hillside...