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Medical School Education And Post Graduate Education Emphasize Thoroughness.

Vague Promises Of Savings From Cutting Waste, Enhancing Prevention And Wellness, Installing Electronic Medical Records And Improving Quality Are Merely ‘lipstick’ Cost Control, More For Show And Public Relations Than For True Change... Savings Will Require Changing How Doctors Think About Their Patients: Doctors Take The Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously, “as An Imperative To Do Everything For The Patient Regardless Of The Cost Or Effects On Others.

When My Children Were Growing Up, We Began Every Family Meal - Which Included Breakfast And Dinner Every Day - With A Prayer. We Are Jewish And So It Was The Prayer Over Bread, When We Were Having Bread, Or The Catch-all Prayer For Everything When We Weren't.

Americans Tend To Endorse The Use Of Physician-assisted Suicide And Euthanasia When The Question Is Abstract And Hypothetical.

By Establishing A Social Policy That Keeps Physician-assisted Suicide And Euthanasia Illegal But Recognizes Exceptions, We Would Adopt The Correct Moral View: The Onus Of Proving That Everything Had Been Tried And That The Motivation And Rationale Were Convincing Would Rest On Those Who Wanted To End A Life.