Word: treating
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...moral certainty. How far is the patient from death? How great is the pain? How clear the will? Does the patient just want to be left alone, or is he asking to be killed? The Cruzan case has raised the basic medical issue of whether doctors must continue to treat patients they cannot cure. In its amicus brief to the Supreme Court, the American Academy of Neurology argues that the doctor's duty is to continue treating unconscious patients as long as there is some chance of improvement, which Nancy Cruzan does not have. When hope is gone, the duty...
...popular. Yet amidst this humor are the troubles of modernity--racism, sexism, child abuse, rape, teen pregnancy, drugs, etc. While Bogosian's play is comic, its intention is in no way farcical. The problems of the culture exemplified in talk radio are of course very real, and the people treat seriously their calls and the opinions expressed in the show...
...course, Peninsula staffers have every right to publish these views. Fortunately for them, the rest of Harvard doesn't treat them as they would like to treat the rest of Harvard...
...single factor, it is the federal Superfund act that gave environmental law its impetus. "Some have suggested that the statute was the public works act of the 1980s for lawyers," says Tulane University law professor Robert Kuehn. The complex legislation, which created a trust fund in the billions to treat hazardous waste sites, mandates that polluters should be held responsible for the costs of cleaning up. What keeps Superfund lawyers busy is the effort to determine exactly who should be found liable. For example, should it be the firm that discharged the waste, the current property owner, the banks that...
...Harvard is going to insist that we act like adults, it might as well treat us as adults. We're big boys and girls now, Harvard...