Word: treatments
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Yesterday's court ruling that hospitalized mental patients have a constitutional right to refuse treatment will not affect current practices in Harvard-operated mental health institutions, James T. Hilliard, special counsel to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, said yesterday...
...never really been a major problem. The Massachusetts Mental Health Center hasn't forced treatment on patients in the past," Hilliard said...
...District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro's decision says that "the state's duty is to make treatment available; it has no duty to impose treatment...
...going to be a very difficult decision to deal with," William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, said yesterday. "It's a good basic legal principle to be able to refuse treatment. But this is not always in the best interest of the patient. They are making rulings that seem to be helping the rights of people, but don't seem to be helping their welfare," he added...
Radioactive materials are essential tools in modern medicine. A radioactive form, or isotope, of cobalt is used in treatment of cancer. Radioactive isotopes of other elements are employed as tracers that enable doctors to follow the paths of substances through the body. For example, iodine 131, given orally or intravenously, is accumulated by the thyroid, which uses iodine to produce hormones. An imaging device detects the gamma rays given off by the isotope and translates them into dots that appear oij a TV screen. Result: help in diagnosing such disorders as hyperthyroidism and cancer...