Word: doctores
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...crackdown on Final Exit Network, a group based in Marietta, Ga., that is accused of assisted suicide, has revived the right-to-die debate that was fueled in the 1990s by Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan doctor who assisted in the deaths of 130 terminally ill people. But Final Exit claims that its volunteers do not perform assisted suicides à la Kevorkian, who was convicted of second-degree murder and went to prison for giving a lethal injection to a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. Rather, the group argues that it merely provides a "compassionate presence" for terminally...
...aftermath played out in slow motion - and is playing out still. Zachery suffers from pain in his back and neck. There are unexplained memory lapses, lost initiative, mood swings and depression - symptoms that eventually led doctors to a diagnosis of postconcussion syndrome. In time, the fire department placed Zachery on full disability, but not before a doctor assigned to his case by the city prescribed a course of electroshock treatments that left him unable to remember his own neighborhood...
...finances began to fall apart. As he shuttled from one doctor to the next, his demolition business went into the tank. He was in no condition to rip old houses apart, and even if he had been, the soft economy was suffocating. Having pledged his home equity as collateral, now he was forced to sell his demolition equipment at a loss. He fell behind on his mortgage payments of $1,647 per month. His son had to leave college in Virginia to attend a school near home. His mother passed away...
...Good Lord, my doctor told me that years ago. This is news...
...addition to his research and clinical work, Lynch founded Rounds, a program at the Schwartz Center that provides a monthly forum for hospital personnel to talk about their experiences during patient treatment. The program has spread to 165 sites around the nation and involves more than 37,000 doctors. Lynch still runs the sessions for over 125 people at Mass. General, according to Julie Rosen, the Schwartz Center’s executive director. “He is a superb administrator and he is a superb human being,” Rosen said. “He is the doctor...