Word: mgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spokesman for the Massachusetts General Hospital said yesterday they have asked doctors who can delay waste-generating experiments to cut back research but added that MGH faces no immediate crisis...
...Pope will begin as soon as he lands at Logan Airport, when paramedics and a doctor will join his motorcade. Until his entourage leaves the South End, Boston City Hospital will be responsible for his care. When he gives the Mass on the common, Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will take responsibility for him and for any crowd emergencies. St. Elizabeth's Hospital will take care of medical problems of the papal motorcade en route to the home of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Jacobs said...
...MGH, an extra volunteer force will start working Saturday, September 29 and continue through Tuesday, October 2 in the emergency room. MGH normally handles about 1000 out-patients a day, Martin Bander, deputy to the general director of MGH, said yesterday. He added emergency problems normally tend to be most severe on Mondays...
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), according to Martin S. Bander, deputy to the general director, has established two categories of incompetent patients--those who are "imminently, terminally ill" and those who are terminally ill but for whom death is not imminent. The definition of imminence is dependent on a "combination of circumstances depending on the illness," Bander says...
...first type of patient, for whom death is thought to be imminent, it is possible to stop treatment if the family wishes. For the other type of patient, MGH still resorts to the courts if the doctor and family feel the patient should be "treated selectively rather than aggressively." In all situations, the family's wishes are respected and heeded despite disagreement with a doctor...