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Even more complex a question is what role--if any--doctors should play in administering the injection. In 1980, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a policy that "a physician, as a member of a profession dedicated to preserving life when there is hope of doing so, should not be a participant in a legally authorized execution." The Texas Medical Association has reiterated this position...
...team, the U.N. investigation was undertaken when the U.S. expressed dissatisfaction with a previous U.N. probe that yielded inconclusive results last year. The latest report concludes lamely that the investigators "could not disregard the circumstantial evidence" indicating "possible" use of biochemical weapons. But the team led by Egyptian Military Physician Esmat Ezz included "political officers" from Bulgaria and Iran. It did not enter combat zones in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan to collect evidence, relying instead on samples and accounts from refugees...
...then released at his own request. Back home, Blagg related, he switched on the TV and caught reports of the Tylenol deaths near Chicago. He took apart some capsules from his own bottle, found pink flecks in the powder, and the next morning turned the bottle over to his physician, John Clay, for analysis. That evening, Greg and Terry returned to the drugstore where the first purchase had been made, found Tylenol still on sale and bought two more bottles; they discovered more pink flecks in the capsules. Last week word came back from laboratories in Rockville...
...heard about the Shah's illness. In his evening report Vance noted that David Rockefeller had sent his personal physician to Mexico and that if the Shah's ailments were serious we might be asked to admit him for treatment. Cy added, "Our charge d'affaires [Bruce Laingen] in Tehran says local hostility toward the Shah continues and that the augmented influence of the clerics might mean an even worse reaction than would have been the case a few months ago, if we were to admit the Shah-even for humanitarian purposes...
After his experience in a clinic, where women cannot choose the doctors they want he says, "I no longer delude myself that I can be every woman's physician...