Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep him from drifting out into space) and attempted to pull the jammed panel loose with a long-handled tool resembling a boat hook. The panel would not budge. After an hour of pushing, shoving and tugging-interspersed with streams of obscenities clearly audible to millions-the task seemed hopeless. "I hate to say it," said the exasperated Weitz, "but we ain't going to do it with the tools...
...rack, along with those becoming dresses from a boutique called Jolie Madame, are much consolation: "Marriage is a compromise." "A lot of time, a lot of pain, went into learning very little." The possible reactions to much of what is going on in the world today are a rather hopeless twosome: "We ought to do something about it" or "Oh Woe, Alas...
...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...