Catchword: Harvard death

Filed under: English, Medical

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: I thought about that bitter medical student joke, the “Harvard death,” in which all the lab results are perfect, all the electrolytes and body chemistry numbers “in the boxes”—as the patient dies.

Article or document title:
“In a Pile of Papers, the Ghost of a Once-Healthy Child” (URL)

Author:
Perri Klass

Article, document, publication, web site:
New York Times

Date of publication:
Apr. 5, 2005

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