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...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...
...core organizing concept of medicine is to care for the individual patient [while] public health has a population perspective," he says...
...heat on. The risk of heart attack--a major cause of postoperative death--can be cut in half by warming a patient to normal temperatures during SURGERY. Body temperature tends to plummet during an operation, which can cause arteries to constrict and blood pressure to soar. The cost of warming up? Just $15 for a special no-chill blanket...