Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weather was the biggest thing, it was very windy," Majmudar said. "We were not used to it, especially the day after we arrived. I was playing as if there were optimal conditions. As I got used to it, I got more patient. You can't win points quickly in those circumstances...
...judge and derided by the prosecution for courtroom gaffes and blunders. Kevorkian discovered, for example, that he couldn't call the witnesses he wanted. The judge declared that the family of Thomas Youk, to whom Kevorkian had given a lethal injection, would raise the consent of the patient as a defense--one that was irrelevant in a murder case. Four times in the past, Kevorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger (whom Kevorkian did not want representing him in this case) had beaten assisted-suicide charges by arguing that the ex-pathologist had only been relieving the suffering of the patients...
...Kevorkian had no real defense. The videotape clearly showed him injecting the lethal dose into Youk, and the judge told the jury that sympathy for either the patient or the doctor was no excuse. Prosecutor John Skrzynski was unrelenting in plucking the feathers of the self-described angel of mercy. He called Kevorkian "a medical hit man in the night with a bag of poison to do his job." And he said, "There are 11 million souls buried in Europe that can tell you that when you make euthanasia a state policy, some catastrophic things can evolve from that...
Where the technology could go from there is difficult to say, but Sejnowski anticipates big things. Ekman often used videotapes to gauge the emotional states of subjects, once detecting a brief flicker of sadness in the face of a patient who later turned out to be suicidal. A computer like Sejnowski's could have made the diagnosis in real time. Further down the road could be a host of other emotion-measuring computer systems, ranging from smart ATMs that can shut down if they spot a suspicious patron to television systems that can determine if a finger-wagging politician...
Rezulin is the first of a new class of drugs that goes directly to the problem and forces cells to accept insulin. And it appears to be effective in hundreds of thousands of patients whose disease isn't controlled by existing treatments. The question, as always, is whether the potential outweighs the risks. The FDA did require Warner-Lambert to keep looking for side effects once Rezulin went on the market, and the company has tightened its instructions to physicians on patient monitoring three separate times since then...