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in death of cancer patient
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A 62-year-
old machinist who had undergone
surgery tor colon cancer two years
earlier sought help at a hospital
emergency room for a variety of
painful symptoms diagnosed as re
current cancer.
Specialists said neither che
motherapy nor radiation treatment
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The patient, identified as Mr. R,
and his family then asked doctors not
to administer any treatment other
than painkillers and intravenous
fluids.
The case was discussed in the
medical journal Archives of Internal
Medicine by Dr. Bernard Lo, a
physician and medical ethics special
ist at the Stanford University Medic
al Center, and Dr. Albert R. Jonsen,
a bioethicist at the University of Cali
fornia at San Francisco.
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attending doctors should have
agreed with the patient’s wishes to
decline treatment and concluded
that “sound ethical and legal
reasons” justified the patient’s deci
sion and the physicians’ acceptance
of it.
But then four days later, Mr. R
asked doctors to “speed up’ his
death. Although he was not in pain or
discomfort, he said he had reached
the limits of his endurance.
This request, said Lo and Jonsen,
“created a difficult, controversial de
cision for the physicians,” since this
would be considered active euthana
sia, an act intended to shorten the
patient’s life.
Mr. R’s request was denied. Plans
were made to send him to his daugh
ter’s home with home nursing care.
But before he left the hospital, he
began to hallucinate, twitch, jerk
and have more pain.
Since it was agreed earlier that no
tests be conducted, it was not possi
ble to say what caused the new prob
lems.
Doctors could have done nothing
but this would have caused great dis
tress for both Mr. R and his family.
The use of sedatives and narcotics in
this case raised the possibilty of
adverse side effects and possibly
death.
Lo and Jonsen concluded in re
trospect the doctors should have
administered the least amount of
narcotics and sedatives needed to
control the symptoms.
But problems developed at 3 a.m.
and the two researchers said it was
difficult then to consider all the re
levant issues. The staff was not pre
pared to make a difficult decision ab
out unforeseen developments.
In this case, the hospital doctors
gave “substantial” doses of a narcotic
and a sedative, with the agreement
of the patient and family. Mr. R
lapsed into a coma and died that
evening.
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ST. LOUIS — The space agency is
trying to drum up business from pri
vate industry for its Landsat series —
satellites that monitor Earth’s natu
ral resources from 570 miles high.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration wants to help
private industry use the Landsat pic
tures for everything from urban
planning to crop forecasting.
Lester F. Eastwood Jr., associate
professor of technology and human
affairs at Washington University,
heads a team working under a
$100,000 grant to propose commer
cial uses for the satellite maps. He
says NASA is willing to take the ini
tial risk to start the industry growing.
“The government doesn’t want to
compete with private enterprise,”
Eastwood. “That would be unfair
competition. But it does want to sti
mulate the industry, and it hopes
this is the best way.
“NASA wants to demonstrate the
capability of the Landsat technology,
then step aside and let private busi
ness take over.”
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situation to the transfer of communi
cations satellite technology to pri
vate enterprise in the 1960s, a trans
fer which led to a revolution in the
communications industry. Then, he
said, the applications were obvious
and the companies involved were
already giants in the field.
Now, Eastwood said, the technol
ogy exists, but the applications and
the industries to use them are not so
well established.
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Human survival,
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WASHINGTON — Humans have
become a major force in the destiny
of life on Earth, and a major new
international conservation project
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world’s diverse species may help in
sure our own survival.
Some scientists believe as many as
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nology that seeks to serve the needs
of ever-increasing numbers of peo
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forms, usually without human
awareness or any gains for man.”
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obliged to preserve species, the
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tates that we be prudent — we can
not predict what species may be
come useful to us.
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