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2006-07-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2006-07-21 09:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A day later, we walked in to find him sitting upright in a chair, reading the New York Times.

Just like the doctors who anted to kill him

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-07-21 09:45|| 2006-07-21 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 I noticed that, too. Irony meter pegged at "off-scale high."

Posted by Mike 2006-07-21 11:03|| 2006-07-21 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Residents like that wouldn't last very long around me.

Again, there's a difference between euthanasia and hospice care, killing a patient and comfort care. When the situation is truly hopeless, we'll work with families to help make patients comfortable. But that's the families' decision and not ours. It's never ours.

I never, ever want patients and families to worry whether I wear the white coat of a healer or the black hood of an executioner.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-07-21 11:18|| 2006-07-21 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve, every profession has its bad apples. If it's any consolation, yours has fewer than most. Given the temptations available to doctors, that is actually quite a compliment.

Posted by mac 2006-07-21 11:58|| 2006-07-21 11:58|| Front Page Top

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