At 01:50 PM 1/7/2003 -0600 Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
><<http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith010603.asp>>
>
>January 6, 2003, 9:00 a.m.
>"Doc Knows Best"
>It'll be too late for you, if he's wrong.
>
>By Wesley J. Smith
>
>Who should have the right to decide whether you receive life-sustaining
>medical treatment during a critical or terminal illness? Most would say
>with great confidence, "Me. Or, if I am unable to decide, then my family."
Anyone else find it ironic that this column was published in a magazine
that opposes nationalized health care. According to the article, these
decisions are most often taken when the patient is simply unable to pay for
the care that he or she desires. I can only wonder, then, whom exactly
National Review expects to pay for very expensive futile care.
JDG
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