"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Mad Doctor Update: The German-pathologist - turned- performance-artist, Professor von Hagens, performed his public autopsy to a record crowd, and to a television audience, too. The British aren't sure yet whether they'll prosecute him for violating their Anatomy Acts. Whether or not it's illegal, it certainly breaches the bounds of medical ethics. Although the corpse was donated to the doctor for purposes of art by its original inhabitant when he was still alive, let's be honest about this. The audience was there purely as voyeurs. And the professor knows this. He's not doing this for "art" but for money. He is a circus perfomer, not an artist or an educator. posted by Sydney on
11/21/2002 09:05:00 AM
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