Word: robertses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
She warns about Ed Lawson's outside shot and a pair of good freshmen, Leo Parent and Charlie Roberts. And let's not forget starter Chris Schiano, a 6-ft., 3-in. sophomore and the only member of the squad other than Cain to rate the designation "cute."
A recently commissioned State of Massachusetts Task Force on Organ Transplants makes it clear that these operations, and "Baby Fae" and her transplanted baboon's heart are much more than isolated novelties created by media hype. In fact, they bring into public focus a controversy over the medical ethics and...
According to Roberts, the concern of the task force is to limit the financial scale of the organ transplant business. The committee recommends a "no new facilities" policy in which the state would use the institutions, the hospitals, to restrict the number of operations performed. "Creating a limited capacity," in...
By concluding that the doctor should decide for each patient's case, the task force subsumes an ethical judgment under a scientific judgment. This means enfranchising the doctor and his/her scientific procedure with the power of deciding whether or not to deny a patient a possible means of survival. Perhaps...
But if Harvard and other prominent schools are to continue to lead the way in health care, they must cut their own expensive heart and liver transplant programs. Professor of Political Economy Marc S. Roberts recently estimated that heart transplants in Harvard-affiliated Boston hospitals will cost as much as...