Second Opinion articles from January 1992

Second Opinion archives from January 1992

Women sexually abused as children: the spiritual consequences. (includes poem)
January 1, 1992... THERE ARE SOME REALITIES about which I must be clear at the beginning. First, many women who will read this article have been sexually abused as children. Too often, professionals and academics dealing with these topics fail to include...

Un-titled. (poem)
January 1, 1992... Each time the parking garage light Blinks FULL and we begin down one-way streets turning at odd intervals until finally--there-- the vacancy that barely fits. We enter the building with locked stairwells, exiting the elevator at the murals of...

Wholly responsible for a part, or partly responsible for a whole? The concept of spiritual care in nursing.
January 1, 1992... Someone has informed me its a hospital. I'm in--but why is a mystery. The Portugese have taken me to some mountain hospital. I need to escape and get to England as I'm dying. Dick will be here soon, he'll stop me dying. Why am I strapped...

Improving communication in health care: the uses of literature. (includes related articles)
January 1, 1992... MOST AMERICANS REALIZE THAT HEALTH CARE today differs from the health care of the past. The days when physicians made house calls and practiced bedside manner appear to have ended and are now mostly recalled through television fiction like...

The case: an episode of noncompliance.
January 1, 1992... BY THE SPRING OF 1987 I had been living with a case of nodular lymphoma for nearly three years. I'd had three different kinds of chemotherapy with varying results, but none of the combinations of drugs administered until then, or since, was...

Commentary: "normal" noncompliance.
January 1, 1992... THIS STORY OF WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED noncompliance has a fortunately happy ending. Not only does the noncompliant patient survive the accepted risks; he also returns to treatment with minimal bad feelings. An easy case, perhaps, but one that...

Overview: can the patient speak?
January 1, 1992... THE DEMONSTRATION THAT NONCOMPLIANCE is a rational response to a conflict between medical directives and other demands of the patient's life is hardly original. (1) Previous reports, however, recommended that physicians understand patients'...

"Walking with each other": an interview with Jane D. Wallbrown. (author, counselor, pastor) (Interview)
January 1, 1992... During the 25 years that Jane Wallbrown worked in the fields of education, counseling, and psychology, she held jobs as an elementary school counselor, a school psychologist, a consultant, and a counseling psychologist in private practice....

What about the child? (donor insemination) (Pursuing Parenthood: Three Responses to Paul Lauritzen)
January 1, 1992... PAUL LAURITZENS STRUGGLE to become a parent is painfully familiar to me. I, too, am infertile and longed for a child. I was as eager as he to find an acceptable means to end my childlessness. The Lauritzens were offered the "cure" of...

The child's right to know. (their biological parents) (Pursuing Parenthood: Three Responses to Paul Lauritzen)
January 1, 1992... I CERTAINLY AGREE WITH LAURITZEN'S first premise, that "none of the problems raised by DI present an insurmountable obstacle to caring for a donor child responsibly," and I admire him for taking a stand against secrecy. However, the...

The manufactured child. (artificial insemination by a donor) (Pursuing Parenthood: Three Responses to Paul Lauritzen)
January 1, 1992... MY COMMENTS ON THE DEFENSE of Paul and Lisa Lauritzen's decision to have a child through artificial insemination by a donor (AID) are offered from within the community of Catholic moral discourse. Lauritzen defends the proceeding by...

Florence Nightingale's calling.
January 1, 1992... FOR ME, NURSING AS PRACTICED in the 1980s had lost its zest, its sense of service--the human aspect that drew me into nursing. The spirit of nursing was languishing. Reflecting about what nursing is and is not, about what it was and might...

Be gentle about death . . . and leave the balcony open. (living wills and durable power of attorney)
January 1, 1992... ON DECEMBER 1, 1991, VIRTUALLY EVERY hospital, nursing home, hospice, and health maintenance organization in the United States implemented the provisions of the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990. this new law requires all health care...

Father's day. (childbirth) (Column)
January 1, 1992... THE HAND ON MY ANKLE WOKE ME FROM A SLEEP that had not been very deep. It was 12:23 A.M. on June 17--Father's Day. My wife, Karen, was wondering if she was in labor with our first child. We had been anticipating this moment for over a...

Shaping public policy on health issues: is rights-talk enough? (Column)
January 1, 1992... Euthanasia Movement Gains Momentum LAST NOVEMBER 5, THE CITIZENS of Washington State rejected a measure, known as Initiative 119, which would have legalized assisted suicide and active euthanasia. If the law had passed, it...

The Patient's Ordeal.
January 1, 1992... A FIRE AND AN EXPLOSION overwhelmed Donald (Dax) Cowart, a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran, a former jet pilot in the U.S. Air Force, an extraordinary athlete, a golfer, surfer, football player, runner, and rodeo cowboy. Instantly the fire...