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Experts in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine are divided in their opinion about whether the hip injury sustained by Bo Jackson, a star in professional baseball and football, is one that will end his career as a professional athlete. The Kansas City Royals released Jackson Mar 18, 1991

Other orthopedic experts expressed serious doubt that [Bo Jackson] could return to professional competition from their reading of the Kansas City Royals' medical report on Jackson's hip injury. Dr. James R. Andrews, the orthopedic surgeon who has treated Jackson in Birmingham, Ala., said he had would wait to see how well Jackson's injuries healed over the next several months before determining whether Jackson could play again. Dr. James Garrick, an orthopedist and sports medicine specialist in San Francisco, were pessimistic because even if the blood supply is restored and the bone heals without collapsing, Jackson will still be left with a bad joint from cartilage damage. The bones in Jackson's hip would meet face-to-face without cartilage, and that could be painful

Earlier this month a Rochester, N.Y., doctor described in The New England Journal of Medicine how he had prescribed barbiturates to help a patient kill herself. The doctor, Timothy E. Quill, said in an interview that he was trying to open up discussion to overcome the secrecy that has shrouded such acts. Quill, many ethicists and experts suggest, has significantly advanced the debates over doctor-assisted suicide. Black & White Photo; AP; Dr. Timothy Quill discusses his involvement in a patient's suicide in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. [Jack Kevorkian] with his suicide device that [Janet Adkins] used to take her life last year

A new study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine found that combined chemotherapy and radiation treatments have significantly lowered the recurrence of rectal cancer after surgery and have improved survival

In particular, [Timothy E. Quill] said he had cared for the woman, whom he identified only as ``Diane,'' for many years. He said he knew she was mentally alert and making her decision calmly. Diane said tearful goodbyes to her closest friends and to Quill. Two days later her husband called Quill to say that Diane said her final goodbyes to him and their college-age son that morning and died peacefully after asking them to leave her alone for an hour. Quill said he decided to publish his account of Diane's story, with her family's permission, in part because of his mixed reaction to [Jack Kevorkian]'s case. ``It focused on machines, and making it a mechanized, sterilized process was not right,'' Quill said. ``He did not know the person well; that was so far away from anything I could do.''

The nation's largest organization of bone and joint surgeons on Friday advised members who are infected with the AIDS virus to inform patients of their infected status and to stop performing surgery except in emergencies. The testing, conducted in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control, is the first large-scale effort to determine the percentage of surgeons who are infected with the AIDS virus. One problem with the testing is that if surgeons who knew they were infected did not get tested at the meeting, the study might underestimate the real percentage of AIDS infections among the surgeons, [Mary Chamberland] said

Together, doctor, patient and her family thoroughly discussed treatment and suicide options, [Timothy Quill] said. 'A week later, she phoned me with a request for barbiturate for sleep,' Quill wrote, adding, 'I knew this was an essential ingredient in a Hemlock Society suicide. [Diane] said tearful goodbyes to her closest friends and to Quill. Two days later, her husband called Quill to say that Diane said her final goodbyes to him and their college-age son that morning and died peacefully after asking them to leave her alone for an hour

In a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, Rochester NY physician Timothy E. Quill told how he prescribed that barbiturates that a 45-year-old female patient needed to kill herself after she refused treatment for a severe form of leukemia

[Diane] had lost friends and family members who had gone through chemotherapy and treatments and who, in her eyes, had very unpleasant deaths, [Timothy Quill] said. ''Her belief was that it was outrageous that our society wouldn't allow' people to end their lives in a humane way, he said. Diane said tearful good-bys to her closest friends and to Quill. Two days later, her husband called Quill to say that she had said her final good-bys to him and their college-age son that morning and died peacefully after asking them to leave her alone for an hour. Quill said he told the medical examiner that Diane died of acute leukemia but withheld information about barbiturates to spare the family any police investigation

In the first direct comparison of the drugs used to dissolve blood clots when a patient is having a heart attack, researchers have found that all three are equally effective in saving lives, but the oldest and cheapest, streptokinase, is the safest