Bioethics in surrogacy: coming soon to ABC!

Dechant

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 9:26 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 21:26

In medicine, you need to be able to deal with the situation at hand.

By this, I mean the precise moment in time, your patient's real and true condition, not the maybes or the could-bes. Those are important, too, but not nearly as important as now. Now, your patient is in pain. Now, your patient is dying. The future is never set in stone, so you work with what is. You take the history and the circumstances into account in this pivotal moment, for this decision.

Let me use an example from primetime television.

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Saturday March 20, 2010 · 8:05 PM PDT

2010/03/20 · 20:05

Now I am sure I want reform to pass on Sunday, because if I feel helpless and hopeless, how much worse must it be to people who can't even afford Healthy NY? I don't get dental, mental, or vision, the three things I need the most. At least if my appendix bursts, I'll be okay. Well, as okay as anyone is after her appendix bursts.

I don't want anyone else to feel this way.

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Bioethics in surrogacy: coming soon to ABC!

Now I am sure.