Word: kass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Middlesex County Appeals Court Judge Rudolph Kass yesterday denied McSweency's motion to extend a restraining order blocking the election board from recounting the paper ballots...
...McSweeney said last night that he plans to appeal Judge Kass' decision today to the Supreme Judi- cial Court (SJC), the state's highest court...
...committee's other members are MedicalSchool Dean for Academic Programs James Adelstein,Kass Professor of the History of Medicine AllanBrandt, professor of Law Martha A. Field,Associate Professor of Radiology Frank P.Castronovo, Associate Professor of Psychiatry CarlSalzman and Professor of Physics Robert V. Pound...
...address the real problems of technology, Kass says, physicians need to return to the ideal of caring and healing, instead of acting as medical technicians obsessed with sustaining life at any cost. Life itself is not the ultimate value. The ultimate value which physicians must hold is that of healing, actually making sick people feel better. With the overuse of technology, doctors have changed from healers, or life-affirmers, to life-prolongers...
Most ominously, Kass notes that another study, done by a Dutch proponent of euthanasia, discovered that last year 8750 patients died from withdrawal of treatment without the knowledge or consent of their families. And that there were 8100 additional cases in which patients died from an overdose of morphine, 61 percent of which occurred, strangely enough, without the patient's knowledge or consent...