Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...health authorities-are concluded and their findings made public. But last week relatives and friends of those who died in the hospital during the period before the mix-up was discovered were both stunned and resentful. Housewife Evelyn Erskine, whose 61-year-old mother died suddenly last January after treatment of a respiratory condition, filed the first of many expected lawsuits that could eventually reach millions of dollars. "They had Mother on oxygen, and they were having problems," she says. A doctor came out to discuss the treatment. Mrs. Erskine recalls, "By the time the doctor went back...
...assessment of the policy is no better than mixed if Carter's aim is to ease the plight of those suffering rights abuses. In some nations?South Korea, the Philippines, Benin, Chile, Iran and Argentina?a number of dissenters have begun receiving slightly fairer treatment. But elsewhere there has been either no relaxation or?as in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania?there have been new repressive crackdowns...
Pepper claims to speak for the 23 million Americans-almost 11% of the population-who are 65 and over. He complains that, oddly enough, these citizens were left exposed to unfair treatment by some past reform legislation: the 1967 law that forbade discrimination in the hiring and firing of people under 65 in private industry because of age, thus penalizing people over 65. Pepper has pushed through the House Education and Labor Committee a bill that would bar forced retirement in the private sector until age 70 and eliminate the mandatory retirement at that age that now applies...
...regarded, sometimes more hopefully than accurately, as the way to give everyone an equal chance. Medicaid was meant to provide fairness in health care, so that if a poor man needs an $800 appendectomy or a $15,000 coronary bypass, he will, in theory, receive something like the same treatment as a character who arrives at the hospital by grossen Mercedes...
...Including warnings against taking aspirin while under treatment for ulcers or other bleeding problems, during the last three months of pregnancy, or except under a doctor's guidance while taking prescription drugs for thinning of the blood or for diabetes, gout or arthritis...