Word: professional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The setting is Kindle County, the imaginary Midwestern tract that also provided the Rust Belt backdrop for Turow's first two best-selling novels, Presumed Innocent (1987) and The Burden of Proof (1990). The moral climate remains much the same as in the earlier books: inducements to lie, cheat, steal...
A. That's up to physicians, and nobody can gainsay what doctors say. It all boils down to the integrity of the doctors. This is what people are afraid of. They don't really trust their doctors, and I can see why. They have made a mess of their profession...
Over the years Kevorkian has been generous to his adversaries in the church, - the press, the medical profession, even the euthanasia movement. Every time he speaks or writes he hands them ammunition to dismiss him as a psychopath. "If I were Satan and I was helping a suffering person end...
But even physicians who spend all their days with the terminally ill are divided over Kevorkian's answer to the problem of pain. Some may respect the patients' decision to kill themselves but draw the line doing it for them. To withdraw treatment merely allows the disease to do the...
Nan is the most supportive of the idea of assisted suicide: "The medical profession has just gotten to where they can keep you alive forever, but they don't know what to do with you." The others, at first, are more reserved, simply affirming that they will honor Sue's...