Word: patiently
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...touch with reality." The document has prompted serious debate, but so far it has moved the country no closer to a consensus on some profound ethical dilemmas. To whom, for example, does a child of surrogate birth really belong? Should a malformed fetus or infant (or any other patient in extremis) live or die? Who will make these decisions? And, more broadly, does ultimate moral authority lie with institutions such as church and state to codify and impose? Or, in a free society, are these matters of private conscience, with final choice belonging to the individual...
...feisty retired social worker who has remained active in social causes, Clark stepped into the spotlight last week. As State Deputy Attorney General Edward Kuriansky tells the tale, she agreed in 1984 to visit the homes, posing as a would-be patient and accompanied by a state investigator who played her son. Last week she said the job was not so tough. If so, sharpies beware: do not trust anyone over...
...benefits at women's centers. Long Island Interior Designer Gloria Levine credits Dr. Budoff with saving her from a mastectomy after Levine discovered a lump in one breast: "She told me how to ask my oncologist to find out if I was a candidate for a lumpectomy." Another clinic patient, Delores Burton, reports that after a painful procedure, she was offered tea. "No doctor ever gave me a cup of tea before. It's a different kind of care." That combination of service and solicitude, notes Dr. Budoff, has earned the ultimate accolade. "We don't encourage it," she says...
...Formerly most mental health patient care wasprovided by state and county hospitals," Dorwartsaid. He added that three out of four psychiatrichospitals are currently privately owned...
...testimony seemed a bit, well, schizophrenic. Appearing on behalf of John Hinckley, who attempted in 1981 to assassinate President Reagan, Psychiatrist Glenn Miller said the patient had improved enough during his five years in St. Elizabeths, a Washington mental hospital, to visit his parents without an escort. But at the same time Miller almost casually noted that Hinckley's "judgment is not perfect." Asked for examples by Hinckley's lawyer, Miller testified that the patient had written to convicted Mass Murderer Theodore Bundy expressing sympathy "for the awful position that Bundy must be in." Hinckley had also received a letter...