Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, an ex-Jesuit seminarian, after weeks of personal agonizing, the California bill implicitly recognizes the validity of "living wills." Long a subject of debate, these are documents in which a patient directs doctors to "pull the plug," in effect, if life-sustaining procedures serve no other purpose than to postpone the moment of death. Under the California legislation, such directives can now be drafted by any adult, must be witnessed by two people who are neither related to the patient nor involved in his medical treatment, and must be renewed every five years...
...wake of the case of Karen Anne Quinlan, the New Jersey girl who slipped into an apparently irreversible coma. Karen's parents spent six months battling for her right to die with dignity.* Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend seems to be to get rid of the senile, insane and crippled people. Our next move will...
...nobody. We're gambling our pride and respect for the school on one thing-athletics." To participate in the quest for identity, students endure a struggle for out-of-town-game tickets that rivals a World Series. Lines form 20 hours before the ticket windows open. Patient under umbrellas, students will gladly wait out a long night and a lashing storm for the privilege of paying their...
Like the sages of his native India, Organic Chemist and Nobel Laureate* Har Gobind Khorana is an extremely patient man. Nine years ago, he began working on the chemical synthesis of a single gene-the basic unit of heredity. By 1970 he had constructed a yeast-cell gene identical to the original-except for one thing: it lacked the vital "start" and "stop" signals to make it function in a living cell. Last week members of Khorana's team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology disclosed that his goal had finally been achieved. At an American Chemical Society meeting...
...practitioners devote themselves to the extremely complex task of finding ways of overcoming the body's natural defenses against foreign cells, so that transplanted tissue will not be rejected. Up to now, the usual tactic has been a form of biochemical overkill known as immunosuppression: the transplant patient is heavily dosed with drugs that interfere with the function of white blood cells-the major weapon of the immune system-and block the formation of antibodies. These are the wondrous proteins designed by nature to seek out invading cells, including transplant tissue, and set the stage for their destruction...