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...curious distinction. Somehow Tsongas has managed to disconnect ambitions that have always seemed inseparable. For the moment, the message is what really matters. Either his ideas are vital to the country, Tsongas says, or he will go down in flames. Until that becomes clearer, he will stay resolved. "I must not do what Democrats usually do," he says, "and bend to special interests. I am the message. If I bend, I have no message...
...look six months back, have either . been involved in an accident or have had a moving violation. So generally we advise that Alzheimer's patients shouldn't drive. Sometimes, if this upsets the patient, I tell the family, Put the car away and say it's been stolen. Disconnect the battery and say the car is not working. Steal the keys, if you have...
...Hennepin have failed to persuade the retired attorney to transfer his wife to another facility or file for an injunction that would force the hospital to continue care. Therefore they plan to take a disturbing and unprecedented step: asking a state court to grant the hospital permission to disconnect Helga's life-support systems. "We don't feel the physicians should be forced by the family to provide inappropriate medical care," says Dr. Michael Belzer, Hennepin's medical director...
...cruel ordeal of Nancy Cruzan is finally drawing to an end. Last week probate judge Charles Teel Jr. ruled that the Missouri Rehabilitation Center could disconnect the feeding tube that has kept the woman alive since 1983, when a car crash left her in an irreversible coma. Since state officials have promised to abide by the ruling, the decision ends a legal battle that took the woman's parents all the way to the Supreme Court in their quest to "allow Nancy the dignity of death...
...privacy and limited the power of the government to dictate medical care. In a peculiar legal irony, many states make it illegal to assist in suicide; yet again and again, the courts have upheld the rights of conscious but paralyzed patients to have their ventilators and feeding tubes disconnected. In the most recent, highly publicized case, quadriplegic Larry James McAfee, still paralyzed five years after a motorcycle accident, petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to allow him to disconnect his own ventilator using a special mouth-activated switch. Upholding McAfee's privacy rights, the court granted his petition. But McAfee subsequently...