Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After arguing that postponing death by extraordinary means is not what is best for the patient, Colen turns to other significant medical ethics questions...
...such hopeless cases, does the intentional disconnecting of a respirator constitute a murder? Colen says no, because the respirator is not prolonging the life of the patient, it is merely postponing an inevitable death. As simple as that. Don't talk about "quality of life" in the Quinlan situation, he says, because her life has no quality. She will never even reach the level of self-awareness of a mentally retarded child. Don't talk about million-to-one chances, because, in Colen's words, "Medicine doesn't deal with a million-to-one. It deals with what is best...
...revelation--the first officially stated policy for letting people die--Colen's presentation of death is invaluable; we must each decide if medical ethics are being properly handled. But don't read Karen Ann Quinlan to find out about a comatose New Jersey woman. Colen uses Karen Quinlan, the patient, only to introduce the many unanswered medical ethics questions. He leaves Karen Quinlan, the woman, in peace...
...suspicions, U.S. Attorney Sam ("the Hammer") Skinner, 38, put two lawyers and three FBI agents on the case virtually full time. They found a tangle of doctors, clinics, medical labs and pharmacies that hauled in fat Government payments and fed kick backs to one another for unnecessary or fictional patient examinations, clinic visits, tests and prescriptions. The investigation was maddeningly difficult because both patients and personnel at the ghetto health centers tended to be transient, and the fraudulent paper work involved was hard to track in the disarray of federal and state bureaucracies. But Skinner quickly became convinced that...
August 15, 1976: the once healthy franchise of the Boston Minutemen had lapsed into a coma. It was viable in name alone, and only an optimist with a fortune could hope to revive the patient...