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...Pace University campus and runs on an annual budget of $1.6 million, met largely through foundation grants and contributions from its 11,000 members. In addition to publishing regularly, the Hastings ethicists develop model legislation, draw up guidelines for public policy, consult in such tortured cases as Karen Anne Quinlan's fate and assist universities in setting up ethics departments. "People used to think of medical ethics as between doctor and patient at the bedside," says Callahan. "We consider wider public policy, how Government spends its money, issues that affect millions of lives, as well as the exotic issues where...
...success of its faddish "Where's the Beef?" commercials. But McDonald's made a big impression once again with commercials portraying the chain as a caring institution. "We spend a bundle trying to stimulate good feelings about the company. We don't knock our competitors," says Michael Quinlan, the company's 42-year-old president and chief executive. One McDonald's spot, called "Silent Persuasion," in which one deaf student uses sign language to propose to another that they visit a McDonald's on the way to the beach, was the second most popular U.S. commercial of 1986, according...
While McDonald's once avoided inner-city neighborhoods, it now pushes into depressed areas where some other nationwide chains would fear to make any investment. Says Company President Quinlan: "Often we're the only bright, shiny thing around. Sometimes we're even the showcase." A total of some 650, or 9%, of McDonald's U.S. outlets are owned by blacks and Hispanics; to boost that average, 45% of potential owners currently in training are members of minority groups...
Such thinking played a significant role in the famous 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court case that permitted the Catholic parents of comatose Karen Ann Quinlan to have her respirator removed. The Quinlans' lawyer, Paul Armstrong, also a Catholic, was among the Boston conferees. He has noted that since the Quinlan ruling, many Americans have come to view kidney dialysis, cancer chemotherapy and the use of respirators as treatments that can be halted if they become too burdensome physically, emotionally and financially. When such methods are onerous and have a minimal chance of success, Catholic moral theologians term them "extraordinary," meaning...
...issue of stopping food and water nonetheless remains one of the most agonizing that doctors face. Thanks in part to the precedent established by the Karen Ann Quinlan case ten years ago, it is no longer unusual to shut off a respirator or discontinue kidney dialysis for terminally ill or comatose patients. Food is another matter. "Most people equate hydration and feeding with nurture and caring," observes Dr. Russel Patterson, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and a member of the A.M.A. judicial council. This equation is entirely natural, argues Patterson, but not for the comatose patient with...