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...Jersey landmark was not binding in other states, of course, and laws on the right to die remain a confused patchwork. Courts have generally but not uniformly ruled that a competent patient has a right to refuse medical treatment (34 states and the District of Columbia recognize "living wills" that forbid extreme treatments). The incompetent and comatose present complex problems. If doctors and families agree to withhold treatment, doctors often quietly practice what they call "judicious neglect," but disagreements still end noisily in court...
Both Cassileth and Angell saw another unfortunate implication in the notion of conquering disease by positive thinking. "If the cancer spreads, despite every attempt to think positively," Angell asked, "is the patient at fault?" She pointed to remarks made by Humana Institute's Dr. Allan Lansing, who at a press conference expressed concern that Artificial Heart Recipient William Schroeder did not have the right attitude after his first stroke. The implication, she said, is that Schroeder was in some way responsible for his condition. At a time when patients are already suffering from disease, Angell concluded, "they should...
...commandos moved through the building, four gun-toting plainclothes officers entered the emergency ward, ordering patients, doctors and nurses to lie facedown on the floor. When the commandos broke into the ward, they shot and killed the plainclothesmen, apparently mistaking them for armed unionists. A fifth death came when a female patient in the intensive-care unit died of a heart attack. The strikers claimed that she had been left unattended when doctors and nurses were rounded up by the commandos. Asked one union member: ! "If this is the democracy that we workers voted for, why are they treating...
...succeeded in embarrassing Alexander von Auersperg, Sunny's son, by forcing him to admit that the family had contemplated buying Claus out before they went to the police with their suspicions. He also obtained testimony from Sunny's personal physician, Dr. Janis Gailitis, that the latter believed that his patient's 1979 coma was due not to an insulin injection but to her choking on her own vomit, a theory the doctor said the prosecutors told him to keep to himself in 1982. Finally, Puccio prevented Mrs. Von Bulow's personal banker, G. Morris Gurley, from testifying about the millions...
...women, roughly 15% to 20% of those having difficulty becoming pregnant, take fertility drugs, and some experts suggest that they are now being overused. "There are no magic fertility pills," says Reproductive Endocrinologist Martin Quigley of the Cleveland Clinic. "Some physicians may be using them indiscriminately in response to patient demands...