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Hospital ethics committees (HECs) are typically charged with addressing ethical disputes, conflicts, and dilemmas that arise in the course of patient care. HECs are not widely viewed as having a therapeutic role for health care professionals who experience psychological distress or anticipatory grief in the course of discharging professional duties. A case is presented in which an ethics consultation was requested, chiefly, to secure emotional support for health care professionals who had been asked by a patient to discontinue life-sustaining treatments. As the case demonstrates, HECs may be called upon to provide emotional support and reassurance to health care professionals who willingly carry out psychologically difficult actions, even though these actions may be ethically uncontroversial. In providing this service, the HEC may not necessarily engage in its customary activity of deliberating an ethics issue and resolving a conflict but may still provide valuable assistance, as in the case presented.

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The HyperBGA® semiconductor package is a PTFE based organic flip chip designed to meet the needs of high performance applications. It combines outstanding overall reliability with higher electrical performance to distinguish itself from wirebond applications, build-up technology, and ceramic alternatives. Signal layers are personalized with high wiring density and wire width ranging from 20 to 33 microns. At this time only a liquid photolithographic process can be used to resolve these ultradense fine lines and spaces while also achieving very tight impedance control. Yields thru Automated Optical Test (AOI) test are mostly impacted by non-repairable defects as circuit opens, neckdowns and dishdowns type defects. To improve on existing yield targets, the entire photolithographic process was considered, examined and variables investigated.Higher yielding processes are absolutely critical for next generation design points. In this article, the photo process and operative variables are discussed with regard to their impact on fine line quality, yields and high reliability of the product in the field.