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...committee's other members are MedicalSchool Dean for Academic Programs James Adelstein,Kass Professor of the History of Medicine AllanBrandt, professor of Law Martha A. Field,Associate Professor of Radiology Frank P.Castronovo, Associate Professor of Psychiatry CarlSalzman and Professor of Physics Robert V. Pound...
This argument, however, ignores the definition of a doctor. Professor Leon Kass, M.D., of the University of Chicago, notes that euthanasia "would change the meaning of being a physician from being a healer to that of being an annihilator." He reminds us that the role of the physician has been that of a person who benefits "the sick by the activity of healing...
...healing aspect of meidicine has indeed been perverted by misuse of technology, Kass says. But he maintains that it is misleading to argue that euthanasia is a solution to the problems which medical technology has caused...
...address the real problems of technology, Kass says, physicians need to return to the ideal of caring and healing, instead of acting as medical technicians obsessed with sustaining life at any cost. Life itself is not the ultimate value. The ultimate value which physicians must hold is that of healing, actually making sick people feel better. With the overuse of technology, doctors have changed from healers, or life-affirmers, to life-prolongers...
Most ominously, Kass notes that another study, done by a Dutch proponent of euthanasia, discovered that last year 8750 patients died from withdrawal of treatment without the knowledge or consent of their families. And that there were 8100 additional cases in which patients died from an overdose of morphine, 61 percent of which occurred, strangely enough, without the patient's knowledge or consent...