Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come up with one statement in defense of life under any conditions as Hemingway did against it: "Life on my terms or I don't want it." It is ridiculous to claim, as does Dr. Yolles, that no physical torture is sufficient reason to prefer death. The cancer patient who wants euthanasia is committing no crime against the miracle of life. There are times when proper homage is paid to life by renouncing it rather than by clinging...
What the U.S. Public Health Service recommends, and the A.D.A. approves, is a machine that delivers an X-ray beam 2¾ in. in diameter. Extra-heavy aluminum filters weed out useless rays, and lead shielding keeps all radiation within bounds. The patient gets only a small fraction of the radiation that was sprayed out of pre-1958 machines...
...doctor's orders had been quite specific: no driving for three weeks after the operation. And the patient was plainly suffering physical discomfort. During services at the First Christian Church in Johnson City last week, Lyndon Johnson squirmed and squinched around the pew during the sermon, nervously clipped his nails while the choir sang Living for Jesus, even fidgeted during the preacher's prayer for "the rapid recovery of Thy servant, our President...
Given the desperate shortage of nurses in this country, the over-staffing of nurses at Stillman infirmary is unconscionable. The average daytime nurse-patient ratio at Stillman is 1:8 in contrast, for example, to 1:13 at Boston City Hospital where medical problems are much more serious. (Among the less educated and poor, people often do not go to a hospital until in or near critical condition). If this difference in ratio were fully reflected in a difference in medical care it might be justifiable, but many of Stillman's nurse-hours are employed making beds, serving cookies, filling...
After speaking to patients and nurses at Stillman, I have found little evidence of benficial nurse-patient relationships developing at cookie-serving time. Even, however, to the extent that there is some value to the "non-professional" functions of nurses in their professional capacity at other hospitals with serious under-staffing. (According to the head nurse at Boston City Hospital, that hospital has funds to hire more nurses but finds the supply exhausted). While the relative security of a Stillman nursing position attracts enough nurses to allow perpetuation of the present situation, the present situation is morally unjustifiable...