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...Smokers will be discouraged to learn that "as of May 1, 2000, cigarettes have been declared illegal." Dan Quayle will be pleased to discover that he has become President. The last homeless person in the U.S. will have found a permanent place to live, somewhere in Chicago, and the cure for AIDS will have come from a wildflower found in the jungles of Africa. A top item in Milestones: Elizabeth Taylor's marriage to Johnny Carson. The covers of the two winning magazines announced the arrival of aliens on earth and superbabies created through genetic engineering. "The kids...
...basic premise of medicine that doctors should be healers and care givers; that they must work for their patients' well-being; that if they cannot cure, they should at least do no harm. When they took their Hippocratic oath, they promised, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel . . ." But the plight of the incurably ill has challenged all these premises and left doctors and nurses deeply divided over their duties to the dying...
...patient from death? How great is the pain? How clear the will? Does the patient just want to be left alone, or is he asking to be killed? The Cruzan case has raised the basic medical issue of whether doctors must continue to treat patients they cannot cure. In its amicus brief to the Supreme Court, the American Academy of Neurology argues that the doctor's duty is to continue treating unconscious patients as long as there is some chance of improvement, which Nancy Cruzan does not have. When hope is gone, the duty ends. But the Association of American...
...subsequent spate of failures. "There ought to be something unethical about cashing in on the way up and on the way down," says novelist Michael Thomas (Hanover Place), a former investment banker. "It's like a doctor who builds a trade infecting people and then purports to cure them. This would raise ethical questions anywhere but on Wall Street...
...naturalist fallacy in this argument is easy to discern. By the author's moral criteria, taking a dose of penicillin to cure strep throat is a profoundly immoral...