TON OUTLOOK Saturday Novembers IMS Outlook Lifestyle Medical ethics deserve note By Peter Colt The new buzz word In medical is ethics Judging from the del a t in doc tors professional journals you think that physicians don know enough to come in out of Medical schools increasingly are offering didactic course work in and in some teaching hospitals arc making patient rounds with the residents Many hospitals have formed ethics committees to provide guidance in difficult situations In Its broadest sense ethics re- patients Make colorful zesty deviled eggs By Polly Fisher side Clean the excess with ea buttermilk will paper towel while the saw Is still the acidity In DEAR POLLY I would like lo milk original recipe was share with your readers this recipe a or sweet milk and will for deviled eggs Halve 1 dozen peeled rWTt hard boned eggs and the wil 1 en and yolks Reserve the while halves Mix but cup bronco to ho d garbage The souion I HUoi yogarorur present cream cheese and cup creamy sal 1 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medical school with a mission chooses to refer to actions well developed system of ethics They that lead to death and omissions knew right from wrong Now I m thai lead to dealh rather than kill so sure year Time magazine and letting die Here is where featured a cover about moral we need help from the law disarray in America Evidently in mla philof our decade spiritual exhaustion hernselvcs we been neglecting something called conscience This handicap may be affecting a whole generation of young people who often seem with and This preoccupation may make for wealthy stockbrokers and business men but Its the kiss of death for doctors Despite bad press I hope that today doctor tobe will continue to enjoy a solid foundation of ethical be because believe that most young people know deep down what a good doctor should be Decency fair consideration and compassion remain the cornerstones of medical practice These qualities can be Finetuned through the process of education bul 1 think they re basics I ly present or absent by the time a liter without maUnf any r fcrs to how physicians behave one another and with patients This In eludes fundamental Issues of honesty plagiarism patients expectations a philosophy of practice good doctor vs bad doctor greed pa treatment refusals li in of aggressive therapy of terminal illness and euthanasia In lis narrowest sense ethics has primarily been viewed as pertaining to in the forms of active or passive euthanasia This has quite extensively and properly been ad dressed by the President RECIPE OF THE WEEK Cele brate the apple barveit with Ihii dell clous mailed elder Combine 1 quart apple elder cup honey lemon whole cloves teaspoon nut meg and oar cinnamon sticks In a large saucepan Simmer or 10 mln Serve warm placing one of cinnamon In each mug or glass as a stirrer Serves four On the other hand euthanasia is a trickier topic because most stances decision arc made on a case by case basis In addition modi people lawyers clergy and ordinary men and women have be come anxious about how medical has altered both the con While the subject Is being debated 1 trust that physicians will continue to adhere to thai part of the oath please no one will I pre scribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death which has guided he profession for centuries In short not doing something to keepsomconeallvolsethlcal murder is not If wc break the rule as we sometimes do we must be prepared to ace the consequences All practicing doctors have the wherewithal to kill patients Con science and honor prevent us from ex erasing this frightening power And we must always resist this tempta tlon expedient though it may be to use this power If we give in to the ret allvlsts we will abdicate the trust and respect placed in us by the public In the final analysis most ethical issues can be reduced to right and wrong In the process of deciding these issues mustn lose sight of a crucial moral dictum so deceptively simple that is almost 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