Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctor, I have faced this decision and, in the darkness of night, with hope for the patient lost, have been at the hospital with sorrow in my heart. Speaking meager words of comfort to an anxious family, I have put my arm around a mother, wife or husband as they sobbed on my shoulder, and then "pulled the plug." It is not easy. It also is not easy to awaken in the morning to find the newspapers rasping away at heartless, moneygrubbing doctors...
...footnote to the Essay on euthanasia? It is easier for Dr. W.F. Anderson of Glasgow than it is for American physicians to take the position that modern drugs can keep a patient sufficiently pain-free to make mercy killing obsolete. Dr. Anderson practices in Britain where it is legal for a doctor to give heroin to a patient (usually a terminal-cancer victim) after morphine has ceased to be effective. In the U.S. it is unlawful for a physician to employ this most potent of all painkilling drugs even for a patient in extremis, for whom there...
...death watch in Cambodia has begun. With signs of its vitality fast fading, the Phnom-Penh regime last week resembled a terminal patient approaching the end. As many as 12,000 Khmer insurgent troops had massed within a 20-mile radius of the capital. Some crept so close that they were within two-mile mortar range, from where they shelled the city, killing 20 civilians and wounding 75. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand was in Phnom-Penh to measure the life expectancy of the regime. His report...
...have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal," says a doctor in Michael Crichton's bestselling chiller The Terminal Man. "The patient is a readout device for the new computer." Cast as that patient in the movie now being filmed, George Segal seems to have bought the fantasy whole. "I'm just passing through the picture," he declared after the movie doctors attached wires to his shaven skull. "What they do to my brain is up to them...
After the rains and the Band were through, the Allman brothers' technical crew took over two and a half hours to set up, and it was hard for the crowd to keep patient, there was no outlet for frustration, either. But a lot of people cheered when firecracker flares were aimed at the Allman brothers when they finally took the stage, without apology. Bill Graham introduced them as a rock band "with balls." The P.A. announcer had refined his routine so much that he underestimated the crowd size and refrained from commenting on the spirit of the whole enterprise until...