Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the elevator reached ground level, the attendants brusquely shooed away curious hotel workers and loaded the man into an ambulance that sped to the airport. There the patient was placed in a waiting Gates Learjet ambulance plane from Miami. Before landing in Acapulco earlier that day, it had fetched from the Bahamas a vacationing Utah physician, Wilbur Thain, who was one of the patient's three private doctors. Pilot Roger Sutton was alarmed by the ailing passenger's condition. "He looked very emaciated, a pasty color," he recalls. "When they put him on the plane, he moved...
...Learjet streaked toward Houston, Sutton inquired about the patient's condition...
...Nixon in Peking last February. During those talks he was careful and cautious, often referring to briefing papers to explain the Chinese position. He confirmed the basic foreign policy guidelines set down by Chou Enlai: China's desire to normalize relations with the U.S., its willingness to be patient on the Taiwan issue and its continuing hostility toward the Soviet Union...
Noting that a patient may sometimes decline medical treatment, Hughes held that the state's interest in preserving life "weakens and the individual's right to privacy grows as the degree of bodily invasion increases and the prognosis dims." The chief justice added that if a patient cannot exercise his or her rights, then a guardian-usually the next of kin-may do so. The court thus entrusted her father, Joseph Quinlan, with Karen's right to die, and he may turn to other doctors or hospitals if Karen's present medical caretakers continue to refuse...
...minute appeal, defense lawyers argued that his patient's constitutional right to an abortion gave Edelin the right to perform, in his best medical judgment, an operation which terminated a possible fetal life...