Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a patient has kept 26 others out of the hospital, others who are salvageable, as this man is not. With the present critical shortage of hospital beds, the admission of patients, even those with cancer, may be delayed for some weeks, possibly long enough for the disease to progress from the curable to the incurable state. Thus we may sacrifice those who can be saved to those who cannot. Can anyone believe in the situation I have described, that first things were truly put first...
...medicine's power for prevention, for healing grows, as progress made in conceptual and technical matters grows, it is evident that moral and ethical problems increase in kinds and in complexity. I think it may be profitable to take a look at the underlying situation. And to do this will require an examination of some underlying propositions...
First from the patient's point of view: If conscious, he is not obliged to avail himself of extraordinary means of survival. A good case in point is the use of intermittent hemodialysis for the man with kidney failure. At a recent symposium, "Ethics in Medical Progress" (edited by Wolstenholme and O'Connor, 1966) considerable discussion was devoted to the question of whether it is suicide for a man who has the opportunity to avail himself of intermittent hemodialysis to reject it. The answer is surely no: It is still experimental; the subject has the right to withdraw...
...subcommittee -- headed by Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett--presented its preliminary findings in a progress report to the full Committee on Houses Wednesday. It will issue its final report next month...
...founding of Stevenson Hall represents a leap forward in the progress of the Princeton social system. In five years the University may be running nearly all the clubs and they will probably look very much like Stevenson. As more and more sophomores decide that private clubs are not for them, the clubs will feel a financial squeeze. They need members to survive. Even now, Goheen is secretly negotiating with three more clubs. They might be bought out before February...