Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Added Years. All his patients, said Dr. Murray, were "terminal": all had received some of the orthodox treatments (radiation, surgery, hormones) for their types of cancer. Some had had every recognized treatment, and all had reached the stage where their doctors had abandoned further treatment as hopeless. In all cases the cancer had spread to many parts of the body...
...method would not work. U.S. critics called Dr. Murray's report superficial, wanted to know why it covered only 91 cases though he had begun treatment on 233. They also wanted many more details than he had supplied to be sure that all patients had been in the hopeless state that he asserted, and that their improvement could not be due to chance or delayed-action benefits from previous treatment. Some thought that the same results could have followed an added course of cortisone-type hormones...
...tragedy," she said, "that some powerful minds have allowed themselves to be enmeshed in arguments over means such as relaxation of tension, appeasement and finally slavery-better-than-annihilation, groveling in the hopeless hope that life would be spared them...
...microbes, notably Staphylococcus aureus, that are resistant to the older antibiotics and have caused terrifying epidemics in many U.S. hospitals. Kanamycin got its acid test in such an outbreak in Houston (TIME, March 31): of 36 infants who got it, 28 recovered, including eleven who had been considered hopeless cases...
This book aspires to "an epic calm . . . the calm of the graveyard." The graveyard is the Warsaw ghetto. The epic is the story of the last hopeless resistance of 500,000 Jews to their Nazi exterminators. Nearly two decades after the event, the reader feels not only horror but a sense of wonder at having lived through a time that gave birth to such crimes...