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Tag Archives: Medicine
Physicians Group Says Put Patients First
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Who does the doctor serve? When we lived in a society with common values, the answer was easy — the patient. Today, not so easy. Now, doctors sometimes are asked … Continue reading
Pushing Centralized Control Over Which Patients Receive Life-Saving Treatment
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The current medical resource crisis has placed people in extremis in the cross hairs of rationing or abandonment. We spend too much on end-of-life care, we are told. Often we … Continue reading
Shameful State Care of Developmentally Disabled
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The New York Times has a sickening story on how badly helpless and vulnerable people with develomental disabilities are treated in state care. (This is an issue I have seen … Continue reading
Break the Spiral of Silence
By Matthew Eppinette, CBC New Media Manager Chuck Colson today weighs in on Jennifer’s recent experience of being verbally mauled by a fertility specialist at a Canadian fertility conference. Sadly, Lahl’s experience is much more common than you would expect … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, biotechnology, Chuck Colson, eggsploitation, IVF, Medicine, reproductive tech
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Transforming Doctors into Biological Repair Technicians
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Readers of my writings know that I have grown increasingly concerned at the deprofessionalization of medicine. Part of this is a self deconstruction in which medical organizations and many bioethicists … Continue reading
Should Doctors Tell Patients When Death is Imminent? It Depends on the Patient
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The LA Times has an interesting story about whether doctors should tell imminently dying patients that they are about to expire. The question asked, is whether this is the right … Continue reading
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Doctors’ Duty is to Patients, Not “Society”
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Increasingly the medical intelligentsia are pushing a dual mandate on physicians in the name of cutting costs — one to patients and one to society — and when they conflict, … Continue reading
“Don’t Be Evil” Google Fined in On-Line Illegal Pharmacy Racket
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Google’s business slogan was once, “Don’t be evil,” which the company dropped in 2009. Perhaps they should have kept it. Now, Google is paying a $500 million fine for knowingly … Continue reading
Coup de Culture: Octogenarian Cosmetic Breast Implants
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC So an 83-year-old woman has given herself implanted, what my generation used to call, “falsies.” From the CBS story: Marie Kolstad, of Orange County, is the mother of four, the … Continue reading
Contemporary Medical Oaths Exert Little Professional Pull on New Doctors
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Several years ago, I wrote about the woeful decline in the taking of the Hippocratic Oath, and the pabulum replacements that really did not require new doctors to pledge anything … Continue reading
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