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...referred to a primary care physician who promptly decides to reuse a dirty scalpel to remove the unsightly growth...
...historical figure, Nostradamus cannot help but fascinate. Born Michel de Nostredame in 1503 in St. Remy, Provence, to a family of converted Jews, Nostradamus achieved celebrity as a physician long before his foray into prophesy. After excelling as a medical student at Montpelier, he enjoyed unprecedented success in treating the 1546 charbon, the Black Death. Always the iconoclast, he achieved his results by rejecting traditional treatments such as bleeding and, instead, stressing hygiene and diet, and giving his patients lozenges made of rose petals and other herbs (really, vitamin C). He seems truly to have been ahead of his time...
...change our position on physician-assisted suicide until [we achieve] a better quality of care for all," she said. "There should never be medical treatment that does not pass muster as moral treatment as well...
Today's impending decision on whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and this past weekend's conference at the Science Center on euthanasia have brought to light the national debate on the right...
...addition, he said that he believes "that most objections to physician aid in dying are based upon religious injunctions...