Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night of April 15, 1975, a 21-year-old woman stopped breathing after taking pills and drinking a large quantity of alcohol. She was revived but suffered severe brain damage. Her breathing was assisted by a respirator. Her prospects for survival were bleak, and her father asked the doctor to disconnect the respirator and allow her to die with dignity...
...first type of patient, for whom death is thought to be imminent, it is possible to stop treatment if the family wishes. For the other type of patient, MGH still resorts to the courts if the doctor and family feel the patient should be "treated selectively rather than aggressively." In all situations, the family's wishes are respected and heeded despite disagreement with a doctor...
...Where will your family come on your list? How many days and nights, weeks and months, will you separate yourself from them, buried in your work, before you realize that you've removed yourself from an important part of your life? And if you're a male doctor, how will you relate to women? Women as patients, as nurses, as fellow doctors-and later as students...
...enormous responsibility that you have-and for having the strength to have made it to this day. I don't know how you've managed to learn it all. But there is one more thing you can learn about the body that only a non-doctor would tell you-and I hope you'll always remember this: the head bone is connected to the heart bone. Don't let them come apart...
...Gantryism and fraud. He has always possessed a bright, generous and translucent character that reminds Frady of Melville's Billy Budd. The child of hard-working North Carolina farm people, Billy grew up so alarm ingly full of energy that his parents once took him to a doctor to see if he was nor mal. He was: an intense, passionate normality has been one of the reasons for his astonishing success. As an adolescent, he went dusting wildly over North Carolina back roads in his father's Plymouth, necked with girls until his lips were chapped and, after...