Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Netherlands boasts one of the worlds most liberal policies on mercy killing, but the Bosscher case caused a sensation. Never before had a physician reported helping a depressed but otherwise healthy patient commit suicide. Of the estimated 2,300 cases of euthanasia and 400 cases of assisted suicide in Holland each year, virtually all involve patients suffering from a terminal illness or unbearable physical pain. Officials charged Chabot with violating the strict guidelines that permit doctors to help patients end their lives. Last week, in a landmark decision, the country's highest court ruled that though Chabot neglected to have...
...senator's Las Vegas event was co-sponsored by Dr. Elias F. Ghannem, A prominent local physician, and Sloan, vice president and general counsel for Circus Circus, a company which operates several hotels and casinos...
...decade has passed since spinal cancer seemed sure to foreclose one of the most esteemed careers in contemporary American writing. At that time a physician cousin told the family that Price's prospects were "six months to paraplegia, six months to quadriplegia, six months to death." He endured multiple surgeries, steroids that distorted his mind and body, torturous physical therapy that proved unavailing, massive leaks of spinal fluid and altogether understandable despair. When the battle was over, when the addictive pain-killers and useless back braces and countless other palliatives were tossed aside, he was paralyzed and in perpetual pain...
Third, all students must spend twomonths in an ambulatory car clerkship. The MedicalSchool has created a new department of ambulatorycare and prevention. They have hired Dr. ThomasInui, a top primary care physician, to head thedepartment...
...refutes Harvard's reputation as a specialtyand academic medicine school, saying "there is aconsensus at the medical school that we mustincrease generalist physician outcome...