Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard, who earlier in the week accepted an honorary D.Sc. from Cape Town University and offhandedly reported that his arthritic hands had not bothered him at all during the five-hour operation, quickly assembled his team at Washkansky's bedside. Whether a heart-transplant patient who had diabetes and was on immunosuppressive drugs could fight off pneumonia was difficult to say. Yet at week's end the hospital still listed Washkansky's condition as "satisfactory." Said Surgeon Barnard: "It's worrying, of course. But I think we can get this infection under...
...force of law in most cases protects the confidential nature of communications between lawyer and client, psychiatrist and patient, pastor and penitent (see RELIGION). Yet scientists studying antisocial or abnormal human behavior have no such protection, and are wide open to arrest for participating in illegal activities or concealing information about them. The result, many of them claim, is that little meaningful research is being done in the field of what sociologists call "deviant behavior...
...must be recognized that this situation when the patient is in full possession of his mental faculties is not comparable to turning off the respirator of an unconscious patient with irretrievable brain damage. The patient who has the possibility of rejecting hemodialysis must weigh not only the financial and emotional cost to his family but also the cost to the society to which he belongs. Medical resources in this field are limited: utilization by one deprives another...
...unconscious patient with overwhelming brain damage can be maintained only by extraordinary means. When it becomes evident that the brain is dead, there is an obligation to discontinue extraordinary supports. But one must remember that the termination of extraordinary care even for just reasons, with death to ensue, can have a shocking effect on observers...
...family of the patient very often want to terminate their agonizing death watch; they urge a discontinuance of extraordinary measures...