Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coming off an 18-3 bombardment at the hands of Loyola on Sunday, Harvard seemed to be a completely different team yesterday at Ohiri Field. The Crimson's passes were crisp, the defense was stingy and the offense was patient...
...doctors were not entirely comfortable putting these ideas into practice. There is an ingrained prejudice within the medical community against using narcotics--even when they are indicated. Everybody seems to be concerned about possibly turning thousands of sober, law- abiding patient into morphine addicts...
...dead? At one time the notion of removing body parts was so ghoulish that families hardly discussed it and doctors, in the infancy of transplant technology, rarely raised it. Even now, after decades of increasing public comfort, the thought that a hospital might be eyeing you not as a patient to be saved but as a new liver for Mickey Mantle is very spooky...
...until the late 1960s that new laws added the standard of brain dead. Hospitals make sure that the physician who officially declares death and the transplant team are separate, and that the family alone decides when to end life support and can refuse to donate organs even if a patient has a donor card. In an interview Wallace says he is happy to have brought the issue to light but adds, "I haven't torn up my donor card," though he wonders who would want his parts. Controversy aside, what DeWine wants is for the IRS-mailed donor cards...
...year adopted a policy allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions based on "ethical, moral or religious grounds," says Carlo Michelotti, the group's interim chief. "We supported this pharmacist's action. A pharmacist has a right to his moral beliefs. Did he do anything to interfere with a patient's care? In this case, relatively...