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ALREADY FACING A MURDER TRIAL FOR HIS ROLE IN the suicides of two chronically ill women in October, Jack Kevorkian has again charged into the center of the debate over physician-assisted death. According to Geoffrey Fieger, his lawyer, the Detroit doctor counseled Susan Williams, 52, for months and was at her side last week when she took a dose of "self-administered carbon monoxide." Williams suffered from severe multiple sclerosis that had left her incapacitated and blind. "Her life, for all intents and purposes, was meaningless," said Fieger. He insisted that his client, the inventor of a suicide machine...
...SPECIALIST IN INTERNAL MEDICINE, DR. HOWard Dean knows that the quality of care soars when patient and physician trust each other. As Governor of Vermont -- and the only Governor in the Union who is a doctor -- Dean also knows that trust has to be earned. So the Governor knew he had his work cut out for him when he set out to persuade insurance companies, physicians and increasingly savvy medical consumers all to agree on a health-care reform plan. Last week Dean succeeded. With the blessings of the state legislature, the Vermont Medical Society, and Blue Cross and Blue...
...came to that rather late. Hanan, cushioned in a wealthy, educated, upper-class family, the youngest of five daughters of a respected physician, had a political awareness that was largely theoretical until the day in June 1967 when Israel took over her hometown of Ramallah. She was a student at the American University in Beirut, then a hotbed of Arab nationalism. She joined in eagerly: "I was going to change the world." But on that June day she heard rumors that her house was being shelled, her parents were perhaps dead, her town occupied. As she stood in a long...
...towns like Indianola, Miss. (pop. 12,000), the technology arrived just in time. One evening last month, the physician on duty at the South Sunflower County Hospital admitted a five-year-old girl who had miraculously survived a brutal car wreck. Apart from cuts and bruises, she seemed O.K., although tests showed that she had lost some blood. A year ago, a doctor might simply have kept her under observation. But the hospital had recently hired Teleradiology Associates, a group of radiologists based in Durham, N.C. Just to be safe, the doctor sent them a CAT scan of the child...
...long as women can get to any state where abortion is legal, menstrual extraction is unlikely to become a real alternative to physician-provided abortions. But the very fact that it's under discussion once more is a sign of the ways in which America is bracing itself for a partial return to the past. In the two decades since Roe was handed down, a generation has grown up that knows nothing of the days of illicit abortions conducted on kitchen tables, or in doctor's offices at night with the blinds drawn...