I Guess, As An Emanuel, I Have

Physician-assisted Suicide And Euthanasia Have Been Profound Ethical Issues Confronting Doctors Since The Birth Of Western Medicine, More Than 2,000 Years Ago.

We All Focus On Health Care And Diabetes And Heart Disease But There's All Sorts Of Things Like The Simple Fact That, You Know, Heavier People, Transportation Is More, So There's More Spent On Gasoline, More On Jet Fuel, People Have Had To Change The Size Of Doorways, The Size Of Chairs On Airplanes And At Sports Stadiums, So There's A Lot Of Hidden Costs As Well To The Increasing Girth Of Americans.

We Don't Have Enough Solid Organs For Transplantation; Not Enough Kidneys, Livers, Hearts, Lungs. When You Get A Liver And You Have Three People Who Need It, Who Should Get It? We Tried To Come Up With An Ethically Defensible Answer. Because We Have To Choose.

Medical School Education And Post Graduate Education Emphasize Thoroughness.

We Had A Big Controversy In The United States When There Was A Limited Number Of Dialysis Machines. In Seattle, They Appointed What They Called A 'god Committee' To Choose Who Should Get It, And That Committee Was Eventually Abandoned. Society Ended Up Paying The Whole Bill For Dialysis Instead Of Having People Make Those Decisions.