Word: physician
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Enrique Ponce, a construction laborer from El Puente, Calif., and Michael Ward, a resident physician at the University of California Hospital in Los Angeles, exemplify two reasons that a federal program to guarantee loans to needy students is in deep trouble. Ponce borrowed $1,500 from a trade school that offered to teach him to become a TV repairman, but dropped out after two weeks because he found the courses too difficult. The school by then had already sold the loan to a credit union, which is now trying to collect the $1,500 from the Government. Dr. Ward...
...regard to the Quinlan case [Nov. 3]: if the courts were to find in favor of the parents, a Pandora's box would be opened. If the courts were to judge that an act of omission by a physician in not prolonging life is homicide, then every patient who dies could become the basis of legal action against the physician. Such a decision would virtually paralyze the practice of medicine...
...Muir announced his decision. In a 44-page ruling, he noted sadly that he had to discount "the compassion, empathy, sympathy" he felt toward the Quinlan family. Both "judicial conscience and morality," he went on, told him that Karen's fate was being handled properly by "the treating physician." Since her doctor, Robert J. Morse, has refused to discontinue use of the respirator, the judge's decision meant that at least for now, Karen must live...
...also calls for a change in the present requirements for commissioner of Health and Hospitals in the city, which would allow the appointment of a commissioner who has "experience in the field of public health," even if he is not a licensed physician...
Other doctors, including Paul S. Gerber, a senior resident at Beth Israel, say that such measures saddle the physician with a painful decision, on whose life should be prolonged and whose should...