An 80-year-old man from Cincinnati in America is making legal history by suing doctors who

saved his wife. Edward Winter has witnessed his wife's death from a 【21】______ attack. The doctors had tried to restart her heart with an electric 【22】______ with remarkable success, but leaving her brain 【23】______ Her death was a long and 【24】______ experience which he did not want to go through himself. After she died he asked his doctor 【25】______ to save him in 【26】______ circumstances, but instead to let him die 【27】______ .

While out visiting in May 1988, Mr Winter 【28】______ the heart attack which he so treated, and was rushed to St Francis hospital in Cincinnati. The doctor who 【29】______ him wrote down on his chart that he was not to be 【30】______ but the duty nurse was not informed of Mr Winter's 【31】______ . The nurse took the usual 【32】______ action and tried to revive him with an electric shock.His life was saved 【33】______ the treatment was not completely successful. Since then he 【34】______ stay in a nursing home, partially 【35】______ and barely able to speak without weeping. Thoughthere is 【36】______ hope of improvement in his condition, doctors say he could 【37】______ many more years. The hospital 【38】______ his story, arguing that the injury suffered by Mr Winter is the 【39】______ of an act of Col and they 【40】______ him over ￡60,000 for saving his life.

【21】

A．heart

B．liver

C．brain

D．nerves