Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proportions were oddly foreshortened, like a stage set. Over the basic, by now slightly worn furnishings, done in hotel-suite neutrals, lay a mulch of giftware's...A great many of these items were monogrammed, embroidered, stitched and woven by the loving hands of women whose fingers the doctor had nonetheless managed to slip through...
...made his tongue so swollen that he could barely talk. In one of the fits of rage that accompanied the "down" periods, he snapped off two teeth. Shards of broken glass pipes formed a thigh-high pile. The apartment was rancid, filled with unwashed clothes and dishes. The doctor did not notice. He spent most of his time in the shower, even smoking his coke there, to relieve the constant sweating. "I went as low as you can go without dying...
Siamese twins, joined at the waist, with a common pelvis, were born in Danville, Ill., on May 5, 1981. The pair had three legs. The parents and doctor allegedly ordered all feeding stopped. They were charged with attempted murder, though the charges were eventually dismissed...
...Jersey justices may consider yet another potential landmark case. In November 1982 Thomas Whittemore requested the removal of a nasal feeding tube from his aunt, Claire Conroy, then 83, who was in a New Jersey hospital unable to speak or move and suffering from advanced heart disease. Her doctor refused to do it. "He said to me, 'Mr. Whittemore, you can't play God.' And I said, 'What are you doing? God's will is that this woman is ready to go. You're the one holding her back.' " Whittemore sought and received...
...Doctor's Orders...