Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guidelines suggest that in a case like Quinlan's--where the patient shows no signs of recovery but is taking up valuable space in an intensive care unit--the patient should be allowed...
...doctors at the three major Harvard teaching hospitals--Mass General, Peter Bent Brigham and Beth Israel--agree that "passive euthanasia" goes on all the time. Passive euthanasia is the death of a patient under a decision by the physician not to treat him aggressively, and it occurs through unofficial but established procedures...
...spite of the complicated social problems she encounters in her work, she persists in offering idealistic solutions. She maintains that knowledge about abortions is becoming more widespread so that problems of late abortions will diminish. And she advocates decreasing machine and drug care for terminal patients and increasing human care, despite her knowledge that medical personnel and families of dying patients feel extremely uncomfortable with them and avoid them when the patient is close to death...
This system may seem like killing the patient to cure the disease, but actually it leaves the opportunity for changing Houses--particularly between the Quad and River dorms--while destroying many of the stereotypes that make housing a disputed subject here. Students assigned from the start to a House with a second-class image would enjoy it far more than they would after a year of indoctrination...
...ruling in their favor. Ethicist Thomas C. Oden of New Jersey's Drew University is concerned mainly about establishing a precedent that could weaken the legal barriers against all kinds of euthanasia. That concern is discounted, however, by fellow Methodist Paul Ramsey of Princeton University, author of The Patient as Person (Yale University Press). Says Ramsey: "Everybody has reason to fear the onset of euthanasia, but it doesn't seem to me that a carefully drawn court opinion would be the edge of the wedge toward active killing of terminal patients." Ramsey regrets that the Quinlans took their...