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Emancipated Youth. Some states still have laws requiring doctors to obtain parental permission before administering even emergency treatment to minors. But no physician who begins treatment necessary to save a child before the parents can be located is likely to be prosecuted. Nor will many state attorneys act against doctors who provide sex-related care to minors without parental approval. Many physicians would nonetheless like to see restrictions further eased. "We have failed to recognize the rights of children as people in many areas," says Dr. Lee Salk, pediatric psychologist at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "Teenagers should...
California physicians welcomed the change. "We're in the business of helping people," explains Dr. Lawrence Cosgrove, administrator of one of eight youth clinics established by Los Angeles County under the new law. Before the laws were passed, he says, he could not ask another physician to help a minor in many cases without "putting the doctor in jeopardy...
...weeks ago, Nixon's physician of 22 years, Dr. John C. Lungren, ordered new tests, unconvinced that the anticoagulant drug Nixon was taking orally at home was keeping his patient's phlebitis under control. Lungren admitted Nixon to the hospital a second time for further tests and treatment. A venogram, X rays of a vein injected with an iodine compound, revealed clots in Nixon's left leg in areas other than the femoral vein above the knee, where some of his previous clots had formed. The additional clots (doctors could not be certain that they were...
...plastic clip across the iliac vein from Nixon's left thigh, just above the spot where a clot, discovered last week, had formed. Hickman said later that he could "readily palpate [feel]" the clot during the operation. The teeth of the clip (called a Miles clip, after the physician who invented it in 1962) were closed, creating a sluicelike effect that permits blood-but not large clots-to flow through six small apertures...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, second largest of the commando groups, has an estimated membership of 3,500. It was founded in 1967 by George Habash, a Lydda-born physician who was educated at the American University of Beirut. Habash's group is more flamboyant than Fatah. Marxist-Leninist in outlook, the P.F.L.P. despises the kingships of Hussein and Faisal almost as much as it hates Israelis and Western (meaning U.S.) "imperialism." The P.F.L.P., known to Western diplomats in Beirut as "P-Flippers," has carried out some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks, including the simultaneous skyjacking...