This is the AMA’s Declaration of Professional Responsibility. It too has removed crucial and specific patient protections and replaced them with platitudes and vague terms, the meaning of which can vary from physician to physcian. I plan to write a more extended piece on the undermining of the . . . . Continue Reading »
This on-line headline in The Telegraph for a woman who traveled to Switzerland to kill herself takes the cake. “Doctor Dies With Dignity.” Swallowing poison pills is “dignity,” meaning I guess, that dying naturally is something else. This is really an insidious message that . . . . Continue Reading »
I received a strong reaction to the post about Cornell Medical School weakening the Hippocratic Oath. Today, I heard from a LLU alumnus, concerned about the LLU Medical School’s weakening of the Oath. It purports to be a Christian version (no swearing to Apollo, etc., which is appropriate). . . . . Continue Reading »
These quotes from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger about assisted suicide, according to Reuters:“I personally think that this is a decision probably that should go to the people, like the death penalty, or other big issues. I don’t think that we — 120 legislators and I . . . . Continue Reading »
Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts intends to investigate the decision by the MA Supreme Court to permit the public guardian to remove the feeding tube from a 12-year-old abuse victim named Haleigh Poutre. She is now, apparently, reacting to her environment (not that I believe reactivity should . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t claim a monopoly on wisdom about the issues about which I advocate (some would say, obsess). But I can’t stand it when advocates just lie in support of their position. I have blogged on Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack’s false assertions that advances in cloning medical treatments . . . . Continue Reading »
Cornell Medical School has rewritten the Hippocratic Oath. Gone is the proscription against abortion. No surprise there: Foreswearing that particular act was discarded from the Oath decades ago (although it is interesting how recent newspaper stories report that few doctors today are willing to . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Oregon, I have a piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle addressing the context in which assisted suicide would be conducted. Context can be everything, and in a regime of legalized assisted suicide, it would be . . . . Continue Reading »
The old photo posted on the site was about 6 years old, so I have updated it with one taken about 2 months ago. I am so middle aged! How did that . . . . Continue Reading »
This time, in the Lancet. It would seem that the current methods of peer review definitely need . . . . Continue Reading »
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