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Even when patients go to the trouble of expressing their wishes, the doctor's values may prevail. One study found that in 25 of 71 cases, when patients were moved from nursing homes to hospitals, their living wills never made it onto their hospital charts. "It's easy to say the patient doesn't really understand because he's never been in this situation before and therefore doesn't know what the treatment is all about," says Dr. David Orentlicher, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University. "It's also easy to say to a relative that the patient never...
...doctor's values don't prevail over the patient's, the families' often will. Given the anguish at the deathbed, it is not surprising that patients and relatives may argue over treatment decisions -- or that doctors often side with the family. "The law is designed to give preference to living wills over the wishes of relatives," says Robert Risley, a Los Angeles attorney who drafted the state's initiative to legalize doctor- assisted suicide. "But as a practical matter it throws the health-care provider into a dilemma if there is a conflict...
...were talking about a matter immediately germane to our policy and our students," said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who was on the ROTC committee. "People only think we shouldn't have opinions on national issues when their opinions aren't likely to prevail on the issue...
...them, at least. Whatever one thinks of their impending travels over the next 15 months -- to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, to Tokyo, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- let opportunism prevail. With all the hoopla and reproduction, this will be the last chance to experience these paintings freshly before they join the huge canon of overreproduced masterpieces of early modern art. Then by all means reflect on Albert Barnes, and why nobody like him and nothing like his collection could exist today...
...aides persuaded the House to whoop through by heavy margins not only his raise-taxes, cut-spending budget plan but also his program to first spend an additional $16.3 billion to give an immediate boost to the economy. That the heavy Democratic majority in the House would prevail over even united Republican opposition had never been in doubt. That Clinton's lieutenants could prevent damaging defections by conservative Democrats was nowhere near so certain. A number of conservatives echoed G.O.P. arguments that the stimulus was unnecessary because the economy is recovering well on its own and harmful because the package...