Word: prolonged
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...revised guidelines, which must still be approved by NIH Director Dr Robert S. Stone and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ban all experiments involving women about to undergo abortions if they might harm the fetus, and prohibit any experiments that would prolong the life of an abort ed fetus once its ultimate survival is judged to be impossible. Few research ers are expected to violate the ban, which applies to any American scientist receiving NIH support. Anyone who does can lose federal support for all other research he may be conducting...
...reason to beat those odds. And he must further decide whether the patient has the right or the proper outlook to demand an end to his suffering. In some cases the agony is so severe and the prognosis so hopeless that there is little question that heroic measures to prolong the patient's life should not be employed. But many times the line between hope and hopelessness is a fuzzy one, and the problems of who is to draw it and on what basis remain unresolved...
Most of these experts do not think that these doubts should mean that no doctor may dare let a patient die without first doing everything humanly possible to prolong even the most hopeless cases. Instead they say that advisory groups and some general guidelines for doctors should be considered...
...Something that laymen don't consider is the enormous pressure that the doctor is under," she said. Many doctors have done everything in their power to prolong a hopeless patient's life, she continued, because they are afraid of being accused of negligence in not trying everything possible to save someone's life. Bok added that this trend is becoming less of a problem as more and more patients opt against extraordinary means of prolonging life...
Despite popular support, the issues and questions surrounding euthanasia have become far more acute and complicated for physicians, as a result of the tremendous gains in medical science's ability to significantly prolong the lives of many "terminal" patients...