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Family disagreement can indeed push a case into litigation when not dealt with early on. If skilled professionals can mediate the issues early on, however, family members can come to accept medical facts and agree on what they believe the patient would have wanted. And that, after all, is the issue: not what Terri Schiavo’s parents want; not what Michael Schiavo wants; but what Terri Schiavo told her husband long ago what she wanted. Families must learn, and hundreds do each day, to put aside their disagreements about end-of-life care and focus on that central...
...People were very patient about canceling coffee or drinks because the characters just had to move another chapter,” she says...
...Willig’s doctoral dissertation was less patient. She continued to write Carnation through the summer of 2002, but in the fall of that year, she headed to London for a year-long academic research jaunt not unlike that of Eloise Kelly in her novel...
...villagers as one of Mao's famous "barefoot doctors." At night, he listened to Voice of America on a small radio, studied an English dictionary and hoped for something better. "When you have a job in the Gobi with absolutely no hope and no future, you learn to be patient," Shan says...
...briefly in the 1960s, during the early days of the genetic revolution. Scientists sketched out grand plans for treating disease by adding or removing genes taken from bacteria or viruses. Because they were so good at penetrating cells, infectious agents seemed the ideal vehicles for delivering drugs. Some cancer patients were treated with experimentally modified viruses, and a few even saw their tumors shrink. Too often, however, scientists lost control of their microbial partners. "It wasn't possible at the time to engineer them to make them more specific," recalls Russell. "When they did work, there was a price...