Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were viable, the doctors could keep him alive long enough to perform a bowel transplant that might save his life. Here, however, the doctor's dilemma is ethical as much as medical. Is it fair to set out on a course of treatment that would involve enormous risk and pain, a year in the hospital at least and a very difficult life thereafter? "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should," explains Dr. Goldberg. "We have to keep a level head and treat the child as if it were your own. What would you want for your...
...Rice operates again. This time the news is even worse, and all options are foreclosed. "He essentially had no intestine beyond the stomach," says Dr. Rice. "Doing anything more at this point would just be futile therapy." All they could do was increase the morphine, ease the pain...
...political correctness, a coalition of black organizations and politicians pulled out the rhetorical artillery to try to force UPN to cancel Pfeiffer (the P, as what passes for witty dialogue on the show constantly reminds us, isn't silent) before it ever airs. "The show trivializes the suffering and pain of African-American people during the period of slavery. It distorts and exploits history and desecrates the bones of our ancestors!" thundered Danny Bakewell, president of the Brotherhood Crusade, a black activist group. Last week he led pickets outside the Paramount studios, where Pfeiffer is shot. "They wouldn...
...surgeons need to remove to see if breast cancer has spread. Last week a report noted that by using a radioactive tracer, it's possible to pinpoint the few nodes most likely to harbor stray cancer cells --and biopsy just those instead of 20 or more. The advantages: less pain and lower risk of permanent arm swelling...
Christina is a cool, sturdy lady who says she has a pretty high tolerance for pain, but by 1:15, after hours of labor and 15 minutes of pushing, she is exhausted. Husband Kevin and nurse Mickie Cothren are each holding one of her legs, helping her push. Dr. Ira Smith pokes his head in the room; this will be his third birth in as many hours. "Pitiful pushin'!" he hollers, urging her on. By 2:04 she is groaning hugely. She has her hands clasped behind her knees, working hard, straining like a Russian Olympic weight lifter...