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...books for patients, even when we're 60 and can barely see the words on a page anymore. We take them on knowing they won't pay a dime, knowing they're going to complain, knowing their prognosis stinks. We know how vulnerable patients are - that they literally lie open to us - and that our oath is to do for them what is best. And the best is often not that which "satisfies." To stop giving a narcotic, to do the bigger operation, to deliver devastating news - none of that is satisfying. It is not exactly a good business, selling...
...ruled by the dollar bill, it's perfectly fine to advertise to customers and attempt to take them for all they're worth. Everyone knows that marketing - the ads, commercials, T-shirts and arthritis talks in the backs of diners - is designed to get money from customers. The conventional lie is that marketing informs. Maybe it does, peripherally. It's really done to persuade. But is it fine to persuade patients, so you can squeeze more money from them? Is it fine to scare patients into tests and iffy treatments, to persuade people who aren't sick...
...Canadian who follows the American political scene closely, I was shocked and dismayed by your President's decision to meddle in the Scooter Libby case. What a sorry example for American youth. It is apparently O.K. to lie to cover your backside and that of your boss. Bush's intervention in the Libby case is not only an insult to your judicial system, but it is also an abuse of Executive power. Barry Mayhew, VICTORIA, B.C., CANADA...
...nothing to lose [July 16]. But there could be a more sinister reason. Events have shown that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, not Vice President Dick Cheney, leaked the undercover identity of Valerie Plame. If Cheney was innocent the entire time, why did Libby have to lie to protect him? Could something even more damaging emerge upon further investigation? With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the Fifth Amendment in future testimony. With a pardon, he could not. This whole affair smells. The Bush Administration has taken politics from the gutter into the sewers. Stephen H. Weentland, HOUSTON...
...Nobody likes to be accused of prooftexting, but in a soundbite culture, it's hard to resist - so darn tasty. Here's a typical exchange: Opponents of gay marriage cite Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. It is an abomination." They also like Romans 1:26-7: "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions... the men... committing shameless acts with men." But gay marriage defenders note that Leviticus also orders the faithful to stone mouthy children to death, and that the "dishonorable passions" passage can be read to equate...