Catchword: Harvard death

Filed Under: English, Medical

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: He spoke about how some doctors make a game of resuscitation; how the challenge for some young doctors becomes having patients die a so-called “Harvard” death, in which their blood gas numbers perfectly match those given in textbooks.

Article or Document Title:
“Doctors Ask, Who Lives? When To Die?”

Author:
Dena Kleiman

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
New York Times

Date of Publication:
July 15, 1985

Page Number:
B1

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