In Thirty-five Years Of Medicine I Have

A Thousand People Will Stop Smoking Today. Their Funerals Will Be Held Sometime In The Next Three Or Four Days.

The Carnegie Foundation Is Well Aware Of The Fact That Their Reports Frequently Find Their Way To Dusty Archives In Academic Institutions, But Occasionally People Pick Up A Segment Of A Report And Act Upon It.

The American Ideal Is Not That We All Agree With Each Other, Or Even Like Each Other, Every Minute Of The Day. It Is Rather That We Will Respect Each Other's Rights, Especially The Right To Be Different, And That, At The End Of The Day, We Will Understand That We Are One People, One Country, And One Community, And That Our Well-being Is Inextricably Bound Up With The Well-being Of Each And Every One Of Our Fellow Citizens.

Protection Of The Life Of The Mother As An Excuse For An Abortion Is A Smoke Screen. In My 36 Years Of Pediatric Surgery, I Have Never Known Of One Instance Where The Child Had To Be Aborted To Save The Mother's Life. If Toward The End Of The Pregnancy Complications Arise That Threaten The Mother's Health, The Doctor Will Induce Labor Or Perform A Caesarean Section. His Intention Is To Save The Life Of Both The Mother And The Baby. The Baby's Life Is Never Willfully Destroyed Because The Mother's Life Is In Danger.

I Might Be Better Able To Help Parents Of Dying Children, But For Quite A While I Felt Less Able, Too Emotionally Involved. And From That Time On, I Could Rarely Discuss The Death Of A Child Without Tears Welling Up Into My Eyes.