Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watching her patient come out of a coma, the nurse asked a traditional question: "Do you know where you are?" Congressman Wayne Hays nodded. "Where?" she persisted. Slowly, stretching out the word, he replied: "Barnes ... ville." Hays had survived an excessive dose of sleeping pills, mind undamaged, and would keep his place at the center of a congressional scandal that grew still more lurid last week...
...Wednesday night and took an undetermined amount of Dalmane. The next morning his wife Pat could not rouse him. He was rushed to an intensive care unit by ambulance. At first, Phillips insisted that the weakened Hays, who is 65, had merely overreacted to a Dalmane pill. After the patient was out of danger, the doctor had another reading: "There is no question that he overdosed, but to say whether it was accidental or purposeful at this time would be pure speculation." Associates both in Ohio and on Capitol Hill said that Hays had been despondent. His wife...
Emory's arrest was not his first. In 1962, he was convicted of second-degree murder of a patient who died after an illegal abortion. In 1963, while free on appeal from his first conviction, he was convicted of performing another illegal abortion, was subsequently sent to prison on that charge for three years and had his license revoked. Soon after his license was reinstated in May 1974, he began the cut-rate deliveries that led to his newest arrest...
Comparing himself to a patient approving an operation, Rosovsky said he had tried "to get the best and most competent advice" before making the decision...
...author of several publications dealing with medical ethics, Bok is concerned with issues such as euthanasia, access to medical care, abortion, and truth telling in doctor-patient relationships...