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...frightening fact is that if mercy killings are performed--and undoubtedly some are--the incidents can easily remain a secret between the attending doctor and the family, or even just the secret of the doctor. The death of a patient already diagnosed as hopeless would neither surprise nor arouse suspicion in anyone...
...odds and in which he should do everything within reason to beat those odds. And he must further decide whether the patient has the right or the proper outlook to demand an end to his suffering. In some cases the agony is so severe and the prognosis so hopeless that there is little question that heroic measures to prolong the patient's life should not be employed. But many times the line between hope and hopelessness is a fuzzy one, and the problems of who is to draw it and on what basis remain unresolved...
Most of these experts do not think that these doubts should mean that no doctor may dare let a patient die without first doing everything humanly possible to prolong even the most hopeless cases. Instead they say that advisory groups and some general guidelines for doctors should be considered...
...Something that laymen don't consider is the enormous pressure that the doctor is under," she said. Many doctors have done everything in their power to prolong a hopeless patient's life, she continued, because they are afraid of being accused of negligence in not trying everything possible to save someone's life. Bok added that this trend is becoming less of a problem as more and more patients opt against extraordinary means of prolonging life...
...Tufts rally in the sixth produced one run. The run came on a double play after O'Neill, who was in to get some work, walked the first three batters. By then it was hopeless for the Jumbos, but to add insult to injury, Dave St. Pierre, who came in to pinch hit in the fifth (coach Park was using his bench freely by then) bopped a two-run homer over the left field fence...