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This ambiguity has led to the case's controversy, which has swept waiting rooms and operating rooms across the country. Unfortunately, the AMA never spells out the "certain circumstances" under which euthanasia is condoned. What's the difference between an "intentionally caused" death and a death caused when life-sustaining treatment is withheld...
Reworking this system unavoidably involves controversial value judgements and policy assessments. The stakes are high: American doctors spent about $3.6 billion on insurance in 1984, and the American Medical Association (AMA) predicts the figure will reach $7 billion within three years. Medical, legal and insurance industries, each rapacious in its own inimitable way, have evolved into three fiercely competitive and increasingly unscrupulous rivals. One disgruntled, and perhaps uninformed, Boston Globe columnist recently quipped that any attempt to take sides on the malpractice issue "is like trying to decide whom to cheer for if war erupted between Libya, Iran, and Iraq...
...MAGNITUDE of the monetary resources wasted on insurance and legal protection pales in comparison with the national figures for so-called "defensive medicine." In anticipation of the malpractice subpeona, doctors order extraneous testing procedures to illustrate their competence by covering all possible contingencies. AMA estimates place the 1984 national expenditure on such testing between $17 and 40 billion...
Lawyers--who are the doctors' competitors, mind you, in this insurance scenario--argue that litigation pressure keeps doctors "on their toes." If one were anachronistically fascinated by the myth of laissez-faire capitalism, one might discern some sense in the lawyers' "fairness" argument. But this forgets that the AMA has openly advocated investigations into the capabilities of its members; it has never argued that medical malpractice suits per se are unjustified. The AMA points out that the constant threat of inquisition restricts the accessibility of quality medical care, as doctors flock to states with more relaxed laws, and promotes...
...McKellen is perhaps the most respected classical actor of his generation in England (and the creator, on Broadway, of the sinuous Salieri in Ama-deus), but an adolescent's enthusiasm and wonder animate every moment of Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare, the one-man divertissement in which he opened last week on Broadway for a five-week engagement. First concocted in 1976 and intermittently toured ever since, the show is an amalgam of personal reminiscences, theatrical lore and selections from Will Shakespeare's Greatest Hits. It gives McKellen a sort of actor's holiday untrammeled by directorial "concepts...