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Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Alive Antibiotics Any Being Constitutional Constitutional Right End Euthanasia Kept Lives Medical Need Patients Recognized Right Stop Suicide Technology Want Who

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Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Care Childhood Cost-Effective Dollar Future Greatly Health Health Care Healthcare Helps Life Most Only Save Spending Spent Vaccination Vaccines

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Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: About Child Childhood Children Cough Death Disability Great Host Indeed Longer Medicine Modern Other Parents Polio Triumphs Vaccines Whose Worry

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By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Adopt Been Convincing Correct End Establishing Euthanasia Everything Exceptions Had Illegal Keeps Life Moral Motivation Policy Proving Rest Social Social Policy Suicide Those Tried View Wanted Were Who Would

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Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Been Birth Confronting Doctors Ethical Euthanasia Issues Medicine More Profound Since Suicide Than Western Years Years Ago

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We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Answer Because Choose Come Enough Ethically Get Hearts Liver Lungs Need Organs People Should Solid Three Tried Up Who You

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As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Academic Integrity Quality Which Work You Your

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I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: America Believe Children Future Important Important Thing Invest Kids More Most Most Important Thing Our Pediatrician Resource Son The Most Important Thing Think I Think

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Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

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Topics: Abstract American Endorse Euthanasia Hypothetical Question Suicide Tend Use

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Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Also Anyone Attendance Cost Dinner Every Everyone Journalist Knows Lack Lives Mandatory Nothing Off Official Position Privacy Really Record Understands Washington Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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