Word: foresworn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relationship with his patient is of a dual character. As Plato suggests, the physician is a friend to his patient as both a technophile (friend of medicine) and an anthropophile (friend of man). We seek an answer to the contradicitions in the physician's oath: Is the doctor foresworn primarily to prolong life or to curtail suffering? Is he bound primarily to a legal code or his own conscience? Furthermore, the sacred age-old injunctions to confidentiality and non-criticism inside the medical profession are not always the most pragmatic or desirable self-regulations. Is not the exorbitant cost...
...Yale has had any contact with Wes Lockwood except by permission of his parents and in their presence. Since then, Wes has stated that he had not left Yale under any pressure, that he was not kidnapped and that he is glad for what happened. He has also foresworn his closest friends and associates and described his own manner of life at Yale in terms that no one who knew him, even casually, can accept. This much is clear, a tremendous change occurred in my friend Wes, in less than eight days. What was done to him to effect this...
Ellsberg's sacrifice has already been mentioned. There is, we must realize, no particular certainly that a McGovern-like president will come to power soon. There is no skirting the fact that Ellsberg may go to jail. Clearly, he's foresworn large categories of lucrative government work. Finally, the adulation of student crowds is notoriously short-lived. If he gave up nothing else, Ellsberg at least gave up security for pressure, certainly for uncertainty. For the time being, at least, he has given up the vagaries of academic freedom for the burden of academic responsibility. That seems like little...