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...article entitled "The Responsibility of the Physician Towards the Hopelessly III," was written by doctors from all over the country. It addresses specifically the issue of the terminal patient's right to dictate his course of treatment, and it comes up with some rather startling recommendations. It is acceptable, the authors state, for a mentally competent patient to refuse treatment, even to refuse food, if he or she does not want to prolong an already difficult process of dying. "We're not advocating breaking the law but since the [legal and medical] context is changing, physicians have to make some...
Hunt said that the new record-keeping requirements would require the staffing of "a bright secretary of a comparable physician." There are currently no regulation concerning record-keeping. Hunt said...
Canon was started in 1937 by Chairman Takeshi Mitarai, a physician, who took the company name from Kannon, the Buddhist figure that represents mercy. The firm made the first advanced 35-mm camera produced in Japan in the 1930s and stayed with these relatively slow-selling models for decades. But after moving into calculators and copiers in the 1960s, Canon applied its electronics know-how to cameras and devised the breakthrough AE-1. The company followed up in 1979 with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam...
...Nutrition and Dietary Consultants. The certificate entitles Herbert to a listing in the Official Directory of Nutrition and Dietary Consultants and special rates for malpractice insurance. The latter benefit is a good thing, because Sassafras is an eleven-year-old poodle. Her owner, Victor Herbert, a New York City physician, bought the diploma for $50 to prove a point. Says he: "Something that looks like a diploma doesn't mean that somebody has responsible training...
...aired a libel suit by Carol Burnett against the National Enquirer and a slander suit by California Physician Carl Galloway against CBS's 60 Minutes, but this is the first time it has aired a criminal case. Said CNN President Burt Reinhardt: "The network is devoted to allowing viewers to make their own judgments, rather than assessing news events for them." The intense attention to the gang-rape trial is a subject for debate, however, even within the staff. Says one writer: "Let's face it, they are running the trial because of its sexy nature...