Tag: doctors
Alfie Evans, a Victim of Technocracy
This was about raw power. If Alfie had escaped the diktat, there would soon be others demanding their freedom too.
Courts Decide It’s Time for Alfie Evans to Die
We are witnessing a steady and growing imposition of technocracy in medicine, where “experts” define the parameters of care.
Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia?
Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values.
Medical Establishment Opposes Conscience Rights
The Massachusetts Medical Society wants their pro-life colleagues, and those who believe in the Hippocratic Oath, to be forced to violate religious and moral beliefs.
Sacrificing Pain Patients to Stop Opioid Epidemic?
I’m all for fighting the opioid epidemic. But not at the price of preventing patients from receiving quality medical care.