Word: compassionate
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...reason is that doctors there were relieved of the constraint of the law. The absolute ethical norm established since the time of Hippocrates--that doctors must not kill--was removed in the name of compassion, and the inevitable happened. Good, ordinary doctors, in their zeal to be ever more compassionate in terminating useless and suffering life, began killing people who did not even ask for it. Once given power heretofore reserved to God, some exceeded their narrow mandate and acted like God. Surprise...
No more. These judges have now liberated us from the hypocrisy of the unenforced law. Damn them. Lack of enforcement is an expression of compassion, but the law is the last barrier to arrogance. And God knows that in this age of all-powerful medicine, arrogance is the greater danger...
"Ted was somebody who was different," MacIntosh said in an interview yesterday. "We didn't have the compassion to pay attention to Ted. We were too busy trying to survive [at Harvard]."
MASSIMO CALABRESI has seen more than his share of brutality. As Central Europe bureau chief, he has spent much of the past year reporting on the vicious Bosnian war. But little in that conflict prepared him for the acts of human kindness he uncovered last week in the Sarajevo neighborhood...
I FULLY AGREE WITH AMERICAN CULTURal critic Camille Paglia that this is a "terrible tragedy," especially for the two young sons, who for years to come will have to deal with the aftermath under intense private and public scrutiny. Diana has shown a great deal of growth and maturity. Regardless...