Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the city of Nevers, France, she has come to the city symbolizing war's destruction. In a city which suffered as she did, the woman seeks to understand and end her own haunting pain. In Nevers, in 1944, her German lover was shot, and she was publicly humiliated for consorting with an enemy soldier. But unlike the city, she has not recovered; unlike the architect whom she takes for a lover, she has neither plan nor hope for the future...
Rabies. Improved vaccine, including some from virus grown in incubating duck eggs, has eliminated much of the pain and danger of old-fashioned "Pasteur treatment...
Cancer, a deadly disease that the doctor has to attack with inadequate tools and insufficient understanding of the cause, gives the medical profession its two most painful problems of conscience: Should life be prolonged, even at the cost of pain to the patient, if the doctor is convinced that the patient is dying? And should the doctor tell the patient that the disease is cancer as soon as the diagnosis is certain? Last week 1,000 medical scientists and 450 laymen at the annual meeting of the American Cancer Society in Manhattan heard an eloquent answer to the first question...
...state of dying may be protracted by expensive and desperate supportive measures, and the patient is rescued from one life-threatening situation only to face another. Many objective observers, in contemplating this dismal scene, plead with the doctor to let the patient go quickly, with dignity and without pain...
...Withholding of aggressive or extraordinary treatment can be urged and supported by state planners, efficiency experts, social workers, philosophers, theologians, economists and humanitarians. For here is one means of ensuring an efficient, productive, orderly and pain-free society, by sweeping out each day the inevitable debris of life." Roundly rejecting any such advice, Dr. Karnofsky said that life must be prolonged on the ground, among others, that there is always the hope during a temporary reprieve that science will find a more effective and longer-lasting treatment...