How about me, Don? I'm all for living as long as I can but for certain exceptions such as my vegetablization or lack of any functional cognition and unable to pull the plug myself.
However, Emanuel raises some valid points. There are such decisions as he describes which must be made and by what value system do we make them? Example: A 35 year old black female obstetrician needs a kidney transplant to live. So does the 88 year old hispanic male CEO. Both needs occurred simultaneously and there is only one kidney available in the time constraints imposed by the situation. Who gets the kidney and why? You have to tell the one who is going to die your reasoning. Or what about a 91 year old gay caucasian with severe acne who needs a $750,000 heart replacement but has no insurance? There are always such choices and worse to be made in medicine. Sometimes a doctor chooses wrong but it's not deliberate. It's just the way things are. On Sep 3, 11:38 pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a very interesting article. I'm not suggesting we'll end up > with something like this but it certainly makes for chilling reading. > One major problem with current doctors(according to Dr. Emanuel) is > the Hippocratic Oath. It's all very coldly logical and would be very > effective in reducing costs I believe. If I got to keep the > sweetheart health care our law makers get I'd probably vote for it > myself. > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020370660457437446328009... > > How 'bout you? > > dj --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
