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from irreparable damage to the brain stem. Death inevitably follows.”In a case like this, the patient would not be connected to a heart-lung machine, providing artificial circulation and respiration, unless his family insisted. The family would need to have the means to paywould disallow such expenditures on the grounds that the patient could never regain , whatever happened to Dunny once his body reached the hospital morgue is another matter altogether, unrelated to you.”“But I’m not any less disturbed about it than you are. I’ve discussed it twice with the police. I’m ... bewildered.”[349] “I just want you to know that I don’t hold the morgue employees at all responsible consciousness.“As regards Mr. Whistler,” O’Brien said, “you held a power of attorney in Yes.”“And you signed a release quite some time ago, specifying that heroic efforts, other than a ventilator, were not to be employed to keep him alive.”“That’s right,” Ethan said. “And I’ve no intention of suing.”This sincere assurance caused no visible relief on O’Brien’s part. Evidently he believed that even though the conscientious medical care given to Dunny was lawsuit-proof, a plague of lawyers would nonetheless rain down on him.“Dr. O’Brien
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