Word: consent
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...moments from clinical death. It's then that new doctors, who often find themselves under pressure to quickly deliver fluids or medication to critically ill patients, practice threading a tube into the patient's femoral vein. This training maneuver is generally performed without a patient's or family's consent or knowledge, and its proponents argue that performing the same technique on a cadaver doesn't give doctors the same real-life exposure. Of course, as the procedure's detractors point out, cadavers also don't offer the ethical dilemmas posed by experimenting on live subjects...
...placed chair. The Fogg Museum, aware of the damage, made numerous attempts to bring about the murals' removal and preservation. But to no avail, as the murals belonged to the Corporation, which itself was held under the Deed of Gift not to move the murals without the artist's consent. Th final difficulty was Rothko's death in 1970, which lead to a legal entanglement over his estate that would delay the murals' removal for nine more years...
Some parents don't mind tattoos. I know a mother and teenage daughter who went to a studio recently to get matching ankle designs. Parents who don't approve, however, are now getting some help from laws in 30 states that prohibit studios from tattooing minors without parental consent. Nineteen ban under-age piercing. The American Academy of Dermatology urges that artists be trained, regulated and licensed in precautions having to do with "sanitation, sterilization, cutaneous anatomy, infections, universal body-fluid precautions, biologic waste disposal, and wound care." Tattoos, the ADA reminds us, are permanent. Removing them? It really hurts...
...true that research scientists don't always have the best bedside manner, and sometimes they unnecessarily keep patients in the dark. And the consent forms are often so encrusted with medical jargon that some patients joke they would rather take their chances with cancer than fill them...
...20th century. George W. Bush spent his formative years at Yale, where he joined the Skull & Bones society, a sort of make-believe club for college students. There George made-believe that the United States was an aristocracy where the idiot sons of the privileged could rule with the consent of the populace. Now George's fantasy is coming true and Yale alumni all over the world are swelling with pride...