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...Bertram Zarins, chief of MGH Sports Medicine Service and the team physician for the NFL’s New England Patriots, the NHL’s Boston Bruins, and MLS’s New England Revolution, granted as much...
About a quarter of the way through the novel the reader learns, with a queasy, freezing, absolutely genuine shock, that Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate version of England where the government raises cloned human beings in order to harvest their vital organs for transplant. Although they don't know this when we first meet them, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are clones, born only to grow up and be taken apart piecemeal...
...lives to a close--and not all of those physicians are in Oregon. Many doctors admit to being willing to administer so-called terminal sedation, raising drug levels high enough to induce a fatal coma. Others simply increase morphine doses until the patient stops breathing. In 1998 the New England Journal of Medicine published a physician survey showing that when patients asked for lethal prescriptions, 16% of doctors complied, albeit quietly. "Aid in dying happens in every state," says assemblywoman Patty Berg, co-sponsor of the California bill. "We need to bring it out of the closet, impose legal safeguards...
NOTE: Tomorrow’s regional semifinal contest in Amherst will be broadcast nationally on ESPN-U and Altitude at 3:30 p.m., with regional coverage provided by CN8 in Massachusetts, Cox New England, and Metro Sports Network in Kansas City...
...Bertram Zarins, Chief of MGH Sports Medicine Service and the team physician for the NFL’s New England Patriots, the NHL’s Boston Bruins, and MLS’s New England Revolution, granted as much...