Word: quinlan
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...competent patient. In practice, someone else must try to replicate the decision the patient would make were he able to speak for himself. This notion of "substituted judgment" was established judicially for an incompetent patient by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the 1976 landmark case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had lapsed into an irreversible coma the year before. Pressed by her parents, the court ruled that her respirator could be removed if the Quinlans, her doctors and a hospital review committee agreed...
...many, though, there is a difference, if only one of sensibility. When Karen Ann Quinlan was taken off the respirator, her family fully expected her to die. She did not. Fed through a nasogastric tube, Quinlan, who turned 29 last week, continues to exist in a vegetative state in a nursing home. "She can hear me when I talk to her, and she can hear music. But no connection takes place inside," says Quinlan's mother Julia, who usually visits her daily. Though her daughter's recovery is impossible, she says, "We decided that removing the feeding tube...
Playing at the Washington National Insurance Invitational in Chicago, Harvard fell prey to the aggressive play of the Wildcats. The only bright spot came when top-seeded Elizabeth Evens knocked off a tough Maive Quinlan...
Holy Cross opened the scoring with an unearned run in the first inning, capitalizing on Gary Quinlan's lead-off infield single and an error by Crimson second baseman Gaylord Lyman...
...Kathleen Quinlan, whose acting stands out among the cast's mediocre performances, almost saves Wilder's skit with a sensitive portrayal of the woman who seems willing to reform the deviant. Again the script intervenes. Quinlan is married and loves her husband. Surprisel She was really just out for her own physical satisfaction...