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"We are dealing in an area of uncertainty. An area where there are no rules, contradictory laws and no clear social consensus as to what should be done. And the cost of care for the chronic patient has become prohibitive. This is particularly the case with the long-term comatose patient. The Jefferson Institute is a government- sponsored experimental facility designed to provide quality life support to the comatose patient. I wish to emphasize no moral or ethical position is being taken here. We do not participate in the debate over whether these patients are alive or dead or whether their care should be continued or terminated. Society will decide if there will be more of these facilities or not. In the meantime, we merely provide care as inexpensively as possible."
"Dr. Cowans: Anesthesia's the easiest job in the world until something goes wrong. It's 99% boredom and 1% scared-shitless panic."
"Nurse: Doctors make the worst patients. They know too much."
"Geneviève Bujold - Dr. Susan Wheeler"
"Michael Douglas - Dr. Mark Bellows"
"Elizabeth Ashley - Nurse Emerson"
"Rip Torn - Dr. George"
"Richard Widmark - Dr. George Harris"
"Lois Chiles - Nancy Greenly"
"Hari Rhodes - Dr. Morelind"
"Richard Doyle - Jim"
"Lance LeGault - Vince"
"Betty McGuire - a nurse"
"Tom Selleck - surgery patient Sean Murphy"
"Joanna Kerns - Diane"
"Ed Harris - Pathology resident"
"Philip Baker Hall - a doctor"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.