Word: jerseyed
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...damaged or comatose. Technically, he has the same rights as a competent patient. In practice, someone else must try to replicate the decision the patient would make were he able to speak for himself. This notion of "substituted judgment" was established judicially for an incompetent patient by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the 1976 landmark case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had lapsed into an irreversible coma the year before. Pressed by her parents, the court ruled that her respirator could be removed if the Quinlans, her doctors and a hospital review committee agreed...
...Jersey justices may consider yet another potential landmark case. In November 1982 Thomas Whittemore requested the removal of a nasal feeding tube from his aunt, Claire Conroy, then 83, who was in a New Jersey hospital unable to speak or move and suffering from advanced heart disease. Her doctor refused to do it. "He said to me, 'Mr. Whittemore, you can't play God.' And I said, 'What are you doing? God's will is that this woman is ready to go. You're the one holding her back.' " Whittemore sought and received...
Maybe so. But try to tell that to the parents of children who are patients of New Jersey Dentist Robert McGuire. When Junior gets in the chair, the parents are handed beepers so they can run errands, or stay out of the way, until the dentist is done. Or tell it to the Baltimore lawyer who makes telephone calls while driving to and from Annapolis, thus extending his billable hours. With the technology behind pagers and mobile telephones becoming increasingly available and inexpensive, the handy little devices promise-or is the word threaten?-to become ubiquitous...
...that found the hoard on the ocean bottom. Three years ago, the investors, ranging from a California brain surgeon to a Florida auto dealer, paid $20,000 for each of the 35 units in a unique tax-shelter limited partnership. The deal was the brainstorm of an ebullient New Jersey tax-shelter specialist, Jerry Burke, 50. The money entitled the investors-partners to 17.5% of anything recovered during 1980 from the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita. That ship and a sister ship, the Atocha, both carrying New World treasure to Spain, sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida...
...past two years have opened their season in California at the San Diego Classic Coach Parker decided to skip this year's race, won by the University of Washington (with Yale third) last week... In other crew action Saturday, Princeton lost to the Navy heavyweights in New Jersey but the Tigers redeemed themselves in the lightweight race, coasting to a 15-second...