Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declaiming, posturing and in general living up to his reputation as Parliament's most outrageous figure. Dubbed "Red Ken" by the London tabloids, Livingstone, 42, is famous for his unabashed support of leftist causes and for launching indecorous assaults on government officials. He is also, not coincidentally, a major pain in the aspirations of Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, who wants to broaden his party's appeal by staking out more moderate positions. When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third * five-year term last year, Livingstone and others on Labor's "loony left" got much of the blame...
...draw. Perhaps the harshest indictment of Debbie's treatment comes from doctors who maintain that morphine, used properly, could have kept her comfortable. Her regular physicians, not the hapless resident, believes Minneapolis Neurologist Ronald Cranford, are the "real criminals" for having failed to prescribe adequate medication for her pain. But if the dose required to bring relief also happened to hasten the end of her life, that is something a physician could live with. Pediatrician Kathleen Nolan, an ethicist at New York's Hastings Center, reports that several of her young patients, suffering terribly from cancer, died in this...
...Debbie's death also underscores a fact of medical life: terminally ill cancer patients often suffer unnecessarily because doctors hold back narcotics for fear their patients will become addicted -- even when they have only weeks or months to live. This casts doubt over the profession's reassurances that pain will be controlled. And the dread of unrelenting pain is one factor that may encourage patients and doctors alike to blur the line between letting death occur and causing...
...patient, family, doctor and, if appropriate, a religious representative, and that there's no place for the courts in this decision." Even so, if Debbie's bleak saga yields any lesson, it is that some physicians may need more help and guidance in navigating the murky area between unending pain and death...
...Givati brigade, has been stationed in the occupied Gaza Strip for nearly seven weeks. Late one night, he recalls, his patrol was directed to "make our presence felt" in a refugee camp by entering houses, dragging all the male occupants outside and beating them severely. "The men screamed in pain," said Yitzhak of the victims. Some soldiers, repelled by their mission, maneuvered to act as cover outside the houses. "No one refused the orders," Yitzhak is quick to point out. But when the mission was over, arguments and even a fistfight broke out between those in the unit who approved...