[Chickensoup]

Terrific bump

[Birmingham Rain]

I'm seriously at a loss for words.

For a doctor with a heart... caring and compassionate. My goodness! I scream, "Don't go!"

In one month my insurance coverage allows treatment for trigeminal neuralgia. I'm having a hard enough time to find a doctor treating me in the meantime.

What one was sent to do, do. Never should evil-doers (of any sort; legal restrictions boards, etc.) convince them otherwise.

The talent, the education, the "smarts" were all given as gifts by Our Living God. BECAUSE HE KNEW OF THE NEED BY SO MANY.

All in this world will pass away. Keep good courgage, and be that good and faithful servant.

[Zack Nguyen]

Obstetricians figured out a long time ago, that if they began seeing a pregnant woman whose baby turned out to have Down’s syndrome, they would be forced to provide an abortion or be charged with abandonment of a patient if they refused.

Really? A doctor can be sanctioned if he/she refuses to provide an abortion? If so this is an outrage.

[Zack Nguyen]

As the only neurologist who sees children in a 300 mile radius of a very rapidly growing metropolitan area, I’ve not seen a single case in 2 years. Genetic testing has ensured that virtually all Down’s children are aborted during pregnancy...

This is nothing less than shaking a fist at God. If children aren't normal or might be a burden, we kill them.

[Zack Nguyen]

Catholic hospitals were forced to provide abortions long ago in Belgium, and three years ago were forced to participate in euthanasia.

They should refuse, and be prepared to close down or be prosecuted rather than give in on a matter of core principle. It's easy for me to say that, sitting as I am in front of a keyboard, but God's Word is God's Word, period.

[wagglebee]

This is tremendous, bookmarked!

[Iris7]

As the products of the post-war Baby Boom retire, this role will become critical to the fiscal stability of health care financing, and will contribute enormously to the “quality of life of society.”

Calculated this stuff decades ago. There is not remotely enough labor and capital available to provide every elderly Boomer (am 60 myself) with "high grade medical care" (as we know it today) until death. It is simply impossible.

Triage is not just a possibility in medicine but is an everyday medical necessity. People are let die routinely. Medical resources must be allocated to those persons who will die without treatment but who will not die if given treatment. Those who may have "many years of normal life" if medically treated get way higher priority than those who may not. Goes on all the time and is part of the medical routine here in the good old USA. Check it out yourself.

They say in Holland that old folks refuse to go to a doctor because they figure that if they do they will get the final shot. In such cases the doctor will make a house call. Bye, bye, Grandma.

[TheSarce]

MUST READ ping.

[Malacoda]

But Roe v. Wade didn't start us down this slippery slope. Oooooh noooo.

Sickening. The Culture of Death goosesteps on, trampling all in its path.

[hocndoc]

Great article. This is exactly why I chose to become a bioethicist and why I have my blog and website. I'd like to help turn the tide.

[T'wit]

The die for all this was cast with the passage of Medicare legislation under Lyndon Johnson in 1965. This massive government intervention into medicine spelled the end to private, moral doctor-patient care. It marked the beginning of impersonal bureaucratic medicine based on cost rather than on principle.

The right to life cannot survive under socialized medicine. The logic of socialism is relentless in finding reasons to kill off the weaker half of humanity. The elderly, the sick, the disabled, the weak are portrayed as a drain on the common good. They are not contributing their share to the common welfare. They are "useless eaters" who merely consume scarce medical resources and give back little or nothing. Their lives are not worthy, the socialists will say. They have no quality of life. They are defective. They are subhuman. They will not recover. They are better off dead. They must die.

The Nazis stated matters plainly, and exterminated at least 200,000 people for the crime of being sick or handicapped:

This poster reads: "60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too. Read 'New People', the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the Nazi Party." [Wikipedia]

Here's a photo of the ceremony that welcomed the same thinking to this country. Former President and Mrs. Truman were present the ceremonies, to the right of LBJ, along with Lady Bird Johnson (obscured, behind LBJ), Hubert Humphrey (and many Democratic congressmen not shown here). Wilbur Mills (D., Ark.), Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and a major player in the legislation, was also present. This was before his famous tipsy adventures with a stripper named Fanne Foxe, "The Argentine Firecracker." (Power corrupts!)

[trisham]

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[G Larry]

It's a good thing I didn't go the OB route.
The 'medical boards' wouldn't have liked the way I fought back, against their murderous rulings.

[cgk]

MS-related ping!

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[redgolum]

Come Lord Jesus.

Good is evil, and those who are supposed to heal now kill.