Word: momentous
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...important is for you to talk with people about options like hospice or do-not-resuscitate orders? This must be really stressful for patients and their families. That's why it's so important to talk about values and preferences long before you are at the moment of having to do an intervention. If I have a patient who has early dementia, they still may be able to participate in a conversation about what matters to them, how they want to live their life, who they want to make decisions, and it may be 10 years before the point...
Read "The Fire This Time: Is This Health Care's Moment...
...Perhaps the most ominous moment came that same morning, shortly after Marcos announced in a televised news conference that he was declaring a state of emergency. At that point, General Ver whispered to Marcos in a voice that was audible to the whole nation, "Sir, we are ready to annihilate them at your orders ..." Marcos did not respond. Whether he knew it or not, his failure to move swiftly against Enrile had already cost him the office he was fighting desperately to retain...
...think the most satisfying moments were when I saw lives saved--children suffering from cancer, for example, treated through radiotherapy machines provided by the agency. The most dissatisfying moment of my life, of course, was when the Iraq war was launched. That hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives on the basis of fiction, not facts, makes me shudder...
...brief, clattering moment on Saturday morning, Bald Eagles nesting along Yellowstone National Park's Firehole River had to share their sky with three Marine helicopters ferrying the First Family down to Old Faithful. The Obamas had lunch and views of the famous geyser, most likely oblivious to the ripple effect caused by extensive security measures for their visit on the Park's busy, fee-free weekend. On the narrow two-lane highway between Old Faithful and Midway Geyser Basin, however, motor traffic came to a standstill, eventually backing up vehicles for nearly two miles...