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...error was overlooked. "No one ever sayspeer review reflects pure accuracy," said Dr.George D. Lundberg, editor of JAMA...
...article in the Journal of the American Medical Association has finally set the record straight. According to the author, Journal editor George Lundberg, one of the pathologists who assisted at the President's 1963 autopsy has confirmed that Kennedy's adrenal glands, which normally sit atop the kidneys, were nowhere to be found. Lundberg has also confirmed that someone described only as "Case 3 . . . a man 37 years of age," treated for Addison's disease in 1954 at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, was in fact Kennedy. Although Addison's is incurable, it is fully treatable...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: AP, Lundberg Letter and TIME correspondents}]CAPTION: THINK YOU PAY A LOT AT THE PUMPS...
...Lundberg's own position reflects the A.M.A.'s posture on euthanasia: physicians may withhold life-sustaining treatment under certain circumstances, but should never intentionally cause death. Most physicians concur, though some acknowledge that the line is often hard to draw. Perhaps the harshest indictment of Debbie's treatment comes from doctors who maintain that morphine, used properly, could have kept her comfortable. Her regular physicians, not the hapless resident, believes Minneapolis Neurologist Ronald Cranford, are the "real criminals" for having failed to prescribe adequate medication for her pain. But if the dose required to bring relief also happened to hasten...
Some doctors are wary of outside intrusions into an area that has so long been their province. Says Lundberg: "There are many physicians, myself included, who believe that the place where life and death decisions should be made is at the bedside, between the patient, family, doctor and, if appropriate, a religious representative, and that there's no place for the courts in this decision." Even so, if Debbie's bleak saga yields any lesson, it is that some physicians may need more help and guidance in navigating the murky area between unending pain and death...