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The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care
by John D. Lantos, MD, 224 pp, $22.50, ISBN 0-8018-6762-2, Baltimore,
Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156:948-949.
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Imagine you are a physician, distraught over the paths that your profession
and the "clients" you serve have been channeled into for some time, and you
come across the following:
It feels a little dirty to be participating in the malpractice
system at all since I don't like the system, think the world would be better
off without it, see the lawyers as parasites, and saw myself, then, as a parasite
on a parasite.
And, further, this: "Until quite recently it was widely inferred that
it was the doctor's moral obligation to decide what was best for the patient."
You might well conclude that you had found an empathetic landsman, a
true mensch.
Ah, but what about this: " . . . the jury system . . . functions more
like a lottery in many ways than like a mechanism for justice or for quality
assurance."
And this:
If my . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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