Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diamond insisted that the machine could not be turned off, for "no physician will ever interrupt a device that is performing lifesaving functions." The experts agreed that despite the seriousness of Karen's condition, she meets none of the accepted criteria for determining death. She has not suffered "brain death," the legal measure of death in eight states-though not New Jersey. An electroencephalograph shows that there is still brain activity. She has, on occasion, breathed spontaneously, for up to half an hour, though most experts doubt that she could do so much longer without...
...later founders. Franklin spoke not of sins but, as a publisher would, of "Errata." He grounded virtue in "the Laws of our Nature" and in man's character as "a sociable being." Jefferson believed that "morality, compassion, generosity are innate elements of the human constitution." He and his physician friend Benjamin Rush spoke for those who thought of man as having a moral faculty and of vice as a kind of curable disease. In his view, good habits and moral practice reproduced health and virtue...
Unless the Americans discipline themselves to keep busy, they will quickly fall prey to what Israeli soldiers call "Bedouinism." Dr. Amnon Shapira, a Tel Aviv physician who has served in the Sinai, describes the malaise as a pathological lethargy. "You lose all interest in everything. You don't wash, you have no energy or motivation. It's a matter of not letting the desert get the better...
...Howard Hunt told some of his former CIA associates "that he was ordered in December 1971, or January 1972, to assassinate Anderson." Citing "reliable sources," Woodward said the order came from "a senior official in the Nixon White House." A poison was to be supplied by a former CIA physician, and it was guaranteed to leave no traces. The plan was eventually dropped, wrote Woodward, for reasons unknown...
...former White House Counsel Charles Colson suggested that Anderson might be discredited if he appeared on his live radio program under the influence of a drug that would cause him to ramble incoherently. With another Watergate conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt set up a lunch with a physician who worked...