Okay, I did. And I find that you're full of BULLONEY!
He is a physician. He also got his board certification in pathology (licensed in Pathological Anatomy by 1960, and in Clinical Pathology in 1965).
He graduated from U of Mich medical school in 1952 and did internship in pathology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit (this is where his inspiration to find ways to relieve the suffering of his patients started--when he observed the horrific pain in terminal patient dying of cancer).
"The patient was a helplessly immobile woman of middle age, her entire body jaundiced to an intense yellow-brown, skin stretched paper-thin over a fluid-filled abdomen swollen to four or five times normal size. The rest of her was an emaciated skeleton: sagging, discolored skin covered her bones like a cheap, wrinkled frock.
"The poor wretch stared up at me with yellow eyeballs sunken in their atrophic sockets. Her yellow teeth were ringed by chapping and parched lips to form an involuntary, almost sardonic 'smile' of death. It seemed as though she was pleading for help and death at the same time. Out of sheer empathy alone I could have helped her die with satisfaction. From that moment on, I was sure that doctor-assisted euthanasia and suicide are and always were ethical, no matter what anyone says or thinks."
The Korean War interrupted his career--he served honorably as an Army medical officer--but he completed residencies at Pontiac General Hospital, Detroit Receiving, and the University of Michigan Medical Center.
And when Vietnam came along, Dr. Kevorkian suggested research into battlefield transfusions from KIA casualties to wounded comrades. But he became very disillusioned when bureaucrats were more concerned with the "creepiness factor" than saving lives and denied his research proposal.
I doubt "creepiness" was any factor. Plasma shortage was not a big concern in Vietnam. it's more likely health officials were starting to see him as the nut he is.
This is your defense?
Hey, there are some things that just are NOT in biographies.
Like his ghoulish pictures of death that were found in his residence.
And he's "participated" in some very questionable deaths. One woman he killed was NOT terminal, another was a certified crazy.
Why on earth does anyone go to great lengths to defend this guy? I've got links and stuff to some awful things about this man but I've also go a Blog.
I'll draw up a nice Blog post and post a link to it. Don't want to do this work twice.
Out there across the fruited plains are people who are dedicated to death with dignity, people who don't make big bucks and have a hard-on for dying people. The whole issue is very debatable and indeed, the debates should rage on.
But having Kevorkian in the mix throws everything off-kilter. This guy is simply not right.