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...White water! White water!" yelps Neil Kaminsky, an Albuquerque physician and veteran rafter, as he maneuvers through 5 ft.-tall, "haystack" waves on Idaho's roaring Salmon River. It may not be everyone's idea of a great vacation, but Kaminsky counts himself lucky to be out there risking his life. The U.S. Forest Service, which administers the Salmon and other prime Idaho rivers, grants just 1,100 permits to rafting parties annually. They are chosen by lottery from more than 11,000 applicants...
...physician at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base hospital told Karen Scott, then almost eight months pregnant with her second child, that she needed her cervix sewn shut to prevent premature birth. The diagnosis was faulty, and the operation resulted in an infection that destroyed some of the unborn child's brain cells. Born six weeks prematurely, Johnathan Scott is afflicted with a form of cerebral palsy known as spastic quadriplegia. Although he is mentally alert, Johnathan, now eight years old, will never walk or develop normally...
...last July. In a 5-to-4 vote, the Justices upheld a Minnesota law requiring unwed teenagers to notify both parents before an abortion if the law allows minors to go to a judge instead. In a 6-to-3 vote, the court upheld Ohio's requirement that a physician notify one parent of a pregnant minor of her intent to have an abortion; it also provided for judicial bypass...
...live reports, the network was in effect trumpeting the blood-heating procedure as a major development. That outraged many medical experts. "This is turning a life-and-death issue into a media circus. Frankly, it makes me sick to my stomach," said Dr. Bernard Bihari, a New York City physician who has conducted trials of experimental AIDS drugs...
...careful to include safeguards to prevent the laws from being abused. Most require that patients make a witnessed, legal request in writing, with two independent doctors confirming that the patient's condition is unbearable and irreversible. Says Susan M. Wolf of the Hastings Center: "Even the staunchest proponents of physician-assisted suicide should be horrified at this case because there were no procedural protections...