Word: physician
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...doctors at the three major Harvard teaching hospitals--Mass General, Peter Bent Brigham and Beth Israel--agree that "passive euthanasia" goes on all the time. Passive euthanasia is the death of a patient under a decision by the physician not to treat him aggressively, and it occurs through unofficial but established procedures...
Doctors defend such decisions as a part of the practice of medicine. "What is the point," asks one Manhattan physician, "of restarting a terminal cancer patient's stopped heart so that he can survive in agony for a few more weeks?" But almost all doctors are decidedly uneasy about terminating treatment once it has been started, especially if doing so will mean the certain death of a patient. Many doctors, after all, are taught to regard death as an enemy and to do all they can to defeat it-or at least to keep...
Exercising this responsibility would be easier if the courts were not involved, says Kimball. "A physician's task is to aid the patient, not to make the patient suffer unduly, and to use his judgment when to prolong and when not to prolong life. A court cannot decide in total detail what a physician...
Other Catholics did not agree. As the case went to trial last week, Vatican Radio broadcast an interview with Corrado Manni, a physician at Rome's Catholic University who specializes in resuscitation. He remarked that a decision to remove the respirator that is keeping Karen Quinlan alive would be "extremely dangerous," and his fellow doctors must not accept even an indirect form of euthanasia (mercy killing), "which renounces therapy." The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano then published a similar commentary by one of its staff members, Father Gino Concetti. He wrote: "It is impossible to support the claim...
...mysterious origins and flexible future. He rides into New Orleans on a boxcar and soon afterward picks up a fight and a manager. Speed (played with appropriate flash by James Coburn) is a small-time gambler who spots a sure shot at the big dollar. With a hophead physician (Strother Martin) as medical consultant, Chaney and Speed scuffle around trying to pick a few more fights...