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Friday, November 22, 2002Slicing on a dead body to educate an ignorant public bothers you, but it's OK for parents to kill a child with leukemia by refusing to take him in for treatment with an 85% cure rate! No ethical issues there. You need a new head- perhaps Von Hagens could find one for you... I thought I made it pretty clear in the post that if the treatment were less toxic, if the child weren't in remission, and if there were a better cure rate, then the parents would be guilty of negligence. But, these people weighed the risks and the benefits and decided the risks were too much. It isn't as if they were denying him life-saving antibiotics for meningitis. Anyone who has read this blog knows that I'm no fan of "alternative medicine," but I also don't think we should use our position to bully people. Furthermore, Professor Von Hagen isn't doing his public autopsy for educational purposes. In this age of MRI and virtual cadavers, you don't need to flay open a corpse in public to teach people about the human body. It's pure sensationalism. I have nothing against the medical education of the public. If I did, I wouldn't write this blog. posted by Sydney on 11/22/2002 01:11:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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