Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The most difficult ethical question facing medicine today is: Are the donors really dead? As a neurosurgeon, I speak for the speechless, the so-called brain dead. When I must make the decision to terminate life support for my patient so that another may live, I feel unclean. I decry...
Even more complex a question is what role--if any--doctors should play in administering the injection. In 1980, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a policy that "a physician, as a member of a profession dedicated to preserving life when there is hope of doing so, should not be...
Tsuzuki doubts that she will go to graduate school in music, saying, "I don't think I'll be trying seriously to make my career out of music. I have the feeling that if I were under the pressure to make my living by giving concerts, I would no longer...
Early in our conversation, he told me that scientists have a moral obligation to influence science policy because they are responsible for their products and the ways their products are used. For example, he said that the original atomic scientists--himself included--are partly responsible for modern weapons technology and...
Before he got into trouble in Argentina. Timerman was ostensibly a journalist Judging by The Longest War, his current profession is conscience mercenary. That is, if a prospect of profit exists. Timerman will suffer, feel awful and decry all injustice. With sweeping flourishes. Timerman is a kin of prose Whitman...