Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest loss so far was a case decided last fall, where the judge awarded a patient $1,250,000 for damages suffered when Beth Israel doctors accidentally cut her renal cave artery while cleaning out her spinal column, Creasey said. But he stressed the difficulty of distinguishing between the high risks of some procedures and actual malpractice...
...Petty, and some costumes designed by Giorgio Armani, all helping to spin out a hellish story set in the future imperfect. Even sooner, viewers can sample a fine, tough, sexy new movie called Reckless, with tunes by Romeo Void and Bob Seeger; a fake documentary called This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, which chronicles with legitimate hilarity the American tour of the world's loudest and stupidest heavy-metal band; and Footloose, a kind of contemporary rock fable about a young man who comes to a benighted town in the Midwest where rock-'n'-roll...
Baby Jane was born six weeks ago with a protruding spinal cord and a host of other congenital defects; doctors believe she will be almost totally disabled and severely retarded for as long as she lives. After agonized consultations with medical experts and religious counselors, her parents decided not to authorize major surgery that might prolong Baby Jane's life. A right-to-life activist lawyer sought to force the surgery, but two New York appeals courts and a state children's agency declined to override the parents. Justice then sued to obtain the records from University Hospital...
...years to a mechanic at a General Electric plant in Pittsfield, had four children of her own and took in two foster children. Tragedy seems to have stalked her: her mother left home when Palano was nine, she lost a daughter to cancer and she suffered a spinal injury in an auto crash, which forced her to spend her life on crutches. None of this has stopped her from going back to school, first to a community college and then, in 1980, transferring to Smith's innovative degree program for older women. For three days a week Palano lives...
...play and movie Whose Life Is It Anyway?, and sought answers from lawyers and judges, who are the first to admit they are ill-equipped to deal with them. Baby Jane Doe, as she is known in New York court documents, was born Oct. 11 with a protruding spinal cord, excess fluid on the brain, an abnormally small head and other serious defects. Doctors concluded that the child would be paralyzed, severely retarded and in pain for however long she lived. That term, they added, would be a maximum of two years without corrective surgery; with it, she might live...