Word: md
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Magruder got the fame he sought -though hardly the kind he expected or perhaps deserved. His ranch-style house in Sumner, Md., is staked out by television crews and reporters; passers-by stop to gawk. The once ebullient family is not often on view. There are no more supper parties, bicycling trips, tennis matches. Rarely does anyone answer the doorbell or the telephone. An American political career has ended...
...result of the famous case several years ago where a mongoloid child with an intestinal obstruction was allowed to dehydrate and die instead of being operated on, Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Md., established a review board to advise its medical staff. The board, which meets regularly to attempt to develop ethical guidelines, consists of a surgeon, a psychiatrist, a clergyman and a lawyer...
...consequences. Recently, many doctors have suggested that national guidelines concerning the ethical extremes of euthanasia should be outlined. "The problem is a legal one as much as a medical one," says Dr. Irwin Kopin, chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Science at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. "And the ethical and legal elements simply haven't been explored enough...
...bugging scandal had brought "major developments" to his attention. Thirteen days of innuendo, 13 days of leaks to the press, 13 days of endless rumor. Although the recent revelations clearly demanded immediate honest and forthright action, the President chose to retire to the solitude of Camp David, Md., to contemplate the effect of the Watergate affair, and to decide what moves must be made to save his Administration from ruination...
...under the skin of the chest, must have its battery changed about every two years. For 16 cardiac patients last week, that recurrent surgery became a thing of the past. In operations performed at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., nuclear-powered pacemakers were installed in their chests...