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BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH DR. JAMES BERNAT OF DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL, DR. JAMES CLEARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MEDICAL SCHOOL, DR. JOSEPH FINS OF WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, DR. ROBERT LISAK OF WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DR. KEITH SILLER OF N.Y.U. MEDICAL CENTER
...hospital. When his brothers were told three months later that Tighe was in a persistent vegetative state, they mentally replayed conversations they had had about death four years earlier, after another brother had been shot and killed. "We all said, 'Don't put us on any life support,'" says Keith Tighe, 41. "Jimmy said it too." Still, it has taken time for the Tighes to act, as is often the case. Only in February, after Jimmy developed pneumonia, did the brothers and their father move him into a hospice and start the procedural steps required by the center before...
...says, "I think people will be much more specific in what they want their medical treatment to be." Indeed, Johanson says that at his hospice, the case is "creating fear in patients that their wishes will not be met"; many are responding by "getting things down on paper." Keith Tighe says he and his brothers have reacted to the news by getting advance directives. A TIME poll last week found that 69% of those surveyed who do not have a living will said the Schiavo case had made them think about getting one, or at least talking with their family...
...this wrinkle in the usual order of things? Experts point to a variety of possible causes, including inconsistent job growth and steady purchases of U.S. dollar assets by foreign banks. But how long it will last is anyone's guess. Advises HSH's Keith Gumbinger: "[S]ince rates should have been heading higher already, it's important to factor that into your thinking." Here...
Some of America's most iconic brands, including McDonald's and Pepsi, have banded together in an attempt to counter that possibility. The initiative, called Business for Diplomatic Action, was founded a year ago by Keith Reinhard, the chairman of DDB Worldwide, and Thomas Miller, an ex-pollster at NOP World. Its mission statement: "To sensitize American companies and individuals to the rise of anti-Americanism in the world and to enlist the U.S. business community in specific actions aimed at addressing the issue and reducing the problem." It has already published a quarter of a million copies...