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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, American Medical Association, autonomy, Dobbs v. Jackson, doctor, execution, health care, homicide, killing, law, medicine, mother, patients}

Why Abortion Is Not Health Care

_{Michael Egnor
August 12, 2022

Ethics, Medicine, Science

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Consider that abortion is a procedure in which death is the outcome that defines success. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Belgium, Canada, culture, dementia, disability, disease, doctors, euthanasia, illness, killing, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, patients}

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, death, medication, medicine, patients, physician, poison, Skype, suicide, telemedicine, Vermont, Zoom}

Now It’s Assisted Suicide by Zoom Meeting

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 30, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Remember when we were told that assisted suicide would only be engaged in as part of an intimate and long-term physician/patient relationship? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, doctors, euthanasia, Germany, Hawaii, medical professionals, nurse practitioners, patients, physician-assisted suicide, poison, suicide, Washington State}

Now Another State Wants Non–Physician-Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 27, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

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Hot on the heels of Washington State, it’s Hawaii. A bill has been filed to allow nurse practitioners to lethally prescribe. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 24, 2021

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, activists, assisted suicide, legalization, nurse practitioner, patients, physicians, protective guidelines, psychiatry, psychologist, Skype, Washington State, Zoom}

Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 24, 2021

Medicine

4}

That process is unfolding in Washington State, where a new bill would let non-doctors be part of the assisted suicide bureaucratic process. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 5, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, California, coronavirus, dehumanization, Humanize, medicine, New York State, oncologists, Oregon, oxymoron, pandemic, patients, Planned Parenthood, suicide, telemedicine, Wesley Smith, Zoom}

Suicide by Zoom — Technology and Dehumanization

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

3}

“We are always told that ‘strict guidelines will protect against abuse.’ It’s always been baloney.” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, compassion, coronavirus, courage, Doctor's Diary (series), emotions, fear, intelligent design, joy, love, pain, pandemic, patients, physicians}

Doctor’s Diary: Fear Is a Gift from Our Designer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
May 24, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

2}

As a physician, I have cared for many patients who were fearful. Often with good reason, but not always. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 20, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, China, COVID-19, elderly people, Europe, experts, healthcare, Iran, Italy, Manhattan, mortality, New York City, nursing homes, pandemic, patients, socialism, United States, Wuhan}

The COVID Crisis and Our Healthcare System

_{Michael Egnor
May 20, 2020

Medicine

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To my knowledge, not a single person in the U.S. has died of COVID due to lack of capacity of the healthcare system. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, dementia, despair, disabilities, doctors, family, infanticide, killing, legislation, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, organ harvesting, patients, Reuters}

Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
April 9, 2020

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, cancer, common descent, disease, DNA, evolutionary theory, medical school, mutations, nature, Neo-Darwinism, patients, physicians, Randolph Nesse, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series), Theodosius Dobzhansky, tissue, tumor, Zombie Science (book)}

Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease

_{Jonathan Wells
April 9, 2020

Biology, Medicine

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Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, a leader in this movement for “Darwinian medicine,” would require “questions about evolution in medical licensing examinations.” Read More ›