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I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.
Ezekiel Emanuel / Medical Doctor
Carrie
Voice
Carries
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Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.
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Guilt
Jew
Naturally
Liberal
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You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.
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Quality
Integrity
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Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.
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Medical
Graduates
Medical School
School
Thoroughness
Emphasize
Graduate
Post
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An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.
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Example
Obvious
Patient
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As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.
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Academic
Integrity
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We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.
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Journey
Believe
Mistake
Plenty
Journey Believe Me
Continuous
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Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
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Abstract
Euthanasia
Hypothetical
Physicians
Suicide
Use
Endorse
Tend
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It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
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Infant
Adolescent
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Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others
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Cost
Doctors
Patient
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In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.
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Civil Rights
Majority
Prejudice
Racism
Standing
Civil
Vast
Rarely
Standing Up
Vast Majority
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Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.
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Hollow
Liberation
Commandment
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Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.
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Birth
Confronting
Doctors
Ethical
Ethical Issues
Issues
Medicine
Profound
Suicide
Western
Years Ago
Since
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I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.
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Faces
Needs
Privacy
Relax
Precisely
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Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.
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Future
Health
Care
Childhood
Dollars
Health Care
Healthcare
Spending
Vaccines
Most
Only
Cost-Effective
Dollar
Greatly
Save
Spent
Vaccination
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I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.
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Kids
Believe
Children
Pediatrician
Son
Invest
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Resource
The Most Important
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Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.
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Arguing
Insult
Ultimate
Views
Yelling
Expressed
Smiling
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Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.
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Becoming
Citizens
Example
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Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.
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Conversation
Draining
Dying
Oncologists
Patient
Treatment
Cared
Emotionally
Hundreds
Scores
Shrink
Tumor
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In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime.
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Bedtime
Would Be
Acted
Male
Soldiers
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My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys.
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Attractive
Boys
Charm
Father
People
Walks
Warmth
Life Always Energy
Connection
Cultures
Observed
Passed
Rarely
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There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'
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Parenting
Flow
Jazz
Notion
One Size Fits All
Parameters
Bend
Gained
Match
Specific
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Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.
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Medical
Technology
Alive
Antibiotics
Euthanasia
Physicians
Suicide
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Patients
Recognized
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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.
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Bread
Children
Dinner
Growing Up
Prayer
Jewish
Included
Meal
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Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.
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Death
Great
Children
Disability
Host
Medicine
Modern
Polio
Polio Vaccine
Vaccines
Worry
Child
Cough
Parents
Indeed
Longer
Other
Triumphs
Whose
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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.
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Heart
Liver
Lungs
Organs
People
Three
Choose
Ethically
Hearts
Solid
Tried
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The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.
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Legal
Competence
Conflict
Consciousness
Disagreement
Return
Torn
Deeply
Held
Settled
Terri
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On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.
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Work
Comfort
Given
Night
Pursue
Return
Warmth
Work Home Man
Asleep
Saw
Likely
Require
Sacrifices
Tirelessly
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My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.
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Civil Rights
Feminism
Focused
Inconsistent
Traditional
Civil
Early Years
Racial
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The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.
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Infant
Investment
Projects
Developed
Drawn
Intuitively
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For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.
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Sibling
Take Care
Arrival
Named
Doll
Encouraged
Finally
Prepare
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The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.
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Assumption
Average
Average Person
Dinner
Fodder
Print
Private Life
Public Eye
Life People Will
Appear
Facebook
In Print
Personalities
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Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.
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Attendance
Cost
Records
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Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'
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Attendance
Cost
Dinner
Journalist
Privacy
Mandatory
Official
Understands
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Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.
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Cost
Insurance Companies
Lying
Oath
Physicians
Reasoning
Trying
Associated
Lie
Indeed
Insurance
Patients
Rationing
Resisted
Violated
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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.
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Convincing
Euthanasia
Illegal
Motivation
Rationale
Social Policy
Suicide
Views
Adopt
Correct
Establishing
Exceptions
Proving
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The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama has steadily increased funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was created by President Bush and has strong bipartisan support.
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Health
Aids
Bipartisan
Diplomacy
Funding
National Security
President
President Bush
Relief
Security
Strong
Support
Obama
Bush
Consequently
Domestic
Emergency
Global
Increased
National
Plan
Steadily
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Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and his boys were going to be hugged and kissed by their father and know they were loved.
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Reserved
Homosexuals
Raise
Relatives
Sissies
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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.
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Abandoned
Controversy
Decision
Machines
Numbers
People
Seattle
Decisions
Appointed
Bill
Committee
Ended
Eventually
Limited
Paying
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When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.
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Curves
People
Years
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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.
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Sports
Airplane
Heart
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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.
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Cutting
Doctors
Thinking
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Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own--and their children's--physical and mental abilities. Harris rightly deserves his reputation for fearlessly following his ethical arguments wherever they lead.
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Technology
Careers
Children
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