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Letters: Dying but not wanting to know
Re "Prescribing silence," Opinion, May 16 That Dr. Susan Partovi asked a patient if he wanted to know the details of his terminal illness is commendable. But relying on the old standby, "Do you want everything done?" — not so much. The medical...Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Nursing
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For a dying patient, a prescription of silence
His wife was a patient at the clinic where I worked in my early days as a doctor. I saw her regularly for hypertension. But on one visit, she was more concerned about her husband — let's call him Pedro. He was having stomach pains and difficulty...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Diseases and Illnesses, David Geffen School of Medicine, Abdominal Pain, High Blood Pressure
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PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel
Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....Tags: Heart Attack, Long Island, IBM, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Dave Alvin headlines Juke Logan cancer benefit Sunday in L.A.
Dave Alvin and a slew of other veterans of the Southern California blues and roots music communities, including Junior Watson, James Harman and the Mike Eldred Trio, will gather Sunday at CafĂ© Fais Do Do in Los Angeles to salute harmonica ace John “...
Tags: Music, Entertainment
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PASSINGS: Deke Richards
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Deke Richards, 68, who as part of the songwriting and producing team known as the Corporation was responsible for many of the Jackson 5's early hit songs for Motown Records, died Sunday at a hospice in Bellingham, Wash., of esophageal cancer, according to...Tags: Obituaries, Bobby Darin, Music Industry, Berry Gordy, Music
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Motown producer-songwriter Deke Richards dies
Deke Richards, who as part of the songwriting and production team known as the Corporation was responsible for many of Motown Records' signature songs, died Sunday at a hospice in Bellingham, Wash., of esophageal cancer, according to a statement from...
Tags: Diana Ross, Queens of the Stone Age (music group), Berry Gordy, Music, Motown Records
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Emily Rapp writes her way through grief in 'Still Point of the Turning World''
Emily Rapp is not one to sugarcoat hard truths, including the brutal diagnosis she and her husband received in January 2011 when they took their then-9-month-old son to a pediatric ophthalmologist because of concerns about developmental delays. Ronan,...
Tags: The Washington Post, Amputation, Religion and Belief, NPR, Arts and Culture
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Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian rights activist, actor
Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in...
Tags: Celebrities, Interior Policy, Social Issues, Oliver Stone, Activism
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Richard Dawson dies at 79; host of TV's 'Family Feud'
Richard Dawson, the British actor who went from comedy co-star in the popular TV series "Hogan's Heroes" to his best-known role as the charming host of the TV game show "Family Feud" with his trademark of kissing the female contestants on the lips, has...
Tags: Celebrities, Game Shows, Diana Dors, The Dick Van Dyke Show (tv program), Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (tv program)
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Yuri Rasovsky dies at 67; big name in radio dramas, audio books
Radio drama was thought to be nearly extinct when Yuri Rasovsky launched the National Radio Theater of Chicago in the early 1970s, and he emerged as a major voice in its revival.
One of his first productions was a radio adaptation of the 1920 silent...Tags: Celebrities, Culture, Benjamin Franklin, Movies, Radio
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Nicol Williamson dies at 75; legendary British actor
Once heralded as the greatest British actor of his generation, Nicol Williamson was also a legend for stormy onstage behavior that included calling off a performance of "Hamlet" mid-speech because he was too tired to go on.
"I'll pay for the seats," he...Tags: Celebrities, Marlon Brando, Movies, Theater, London (England)
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Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist
Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...Tags: Tony Blair, Government, Throat Cancer, Culture, Chemotherapy
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