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2005-02-04 Europe

Dutch doctors 'refusing' to perform euthanasia

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Posted by Steve White 2005-02-04 12:00:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So it's taken them less than three years to go from "euthanasia may be performed" to "doctors must perform euthanasia..."

Hmm.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-02-04 12:35:38 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-02-04 12:35:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "That's him!"
"Which one, lady?"
"The guy in the white coat with the stethoscope round his neck!"
"Don't worry ma'am, we'll get him"
"Don't let him escape! Ah! He's running away! Stop that man - STOP HIM! HE WOULDN'T KILL MY BABY!"

Posted by Bulldog 2005-02-04 3:28:37 AM|| 2005-02-04 3:28:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm not normally in favour of international professional boycotts, as they're too often hijacked by Leftoid nuts to persectue Israeli scientists, etc., but on this occasion - Dutch medics are clearly in flagrant breach of the hippocratic oath:

"...I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgement and never do harm to anyone. To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death."...

But then in our enlightened age few people seem to think that Hippocrates' specific moralising about abortion ("nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion") is worth bothering with either.

Time to throw out the Hippocratic oath and all its anachronisms about preserving life and protecting the vulnerable? Maybe in Europe.

Posted by Cling Pherese2662 2005-02-04 3:37:03 AM|| 2005-02-04 3:37:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ That was me

Posted by Bulldog 2005-02-04 3:37:41 AM|| 2005-02-04 3:37:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 In fact it is worse than that: every year thousands of people are ethasianted against their will (ie murdered) but nobody says nothing about it and when prosecuted (a rare thing) the doctors get ridiculous sentences like small fines or minimal suspended jail time.

Now remember that murdered elders reduce the financial load on the pension and healhtcare system. The Euros are not only coward and decadent: they are also morally decadent.

Posted by JFM 2005-02-04 6:10:49 AM|| 2005-02-04 6:10:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 What's really sad is that sixty years ago, the Dutch medical community was rightly praised for its stand against the Nazis on euthenasia.

Posted by Mike 2005-02-04 6:20:49 AM|| 2005-02-04 6:20:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The same yoinks that want us to stop executing convicted murderers are coppin' a mope because the family doctor won't off Grandma?

UnFREAKINGbelievable!

Posted by Darth VAda 2005-02-04 6:32:02 AM|| 2005-02-04 6:32:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oops my previous post should have read: the Euros are morally corrupt

Posted by JFM 2005-02-04 7:30:52 AM|| 2005-02-04 7:30:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Doctors should heal people.

If society wants abortion and euthanasia, it sould create a new profession, shall we call them executioners, and let them dispatch the unwanted.

I want to know if the guy is trying to cill me intentionally or or just get all my money before I die.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-04 7:45:45 AM|| 2005-02-04 7:45:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 It's a weird world, when doctors are required to kill people and women are required to become hookers. I don't think I'd like living in Europe anymore.

Posted by Fred 2005-02-04 9:47:28 AM|| 2005-02-04 9:47:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Well - we have it here in the US - not by name, but by frequent practice. A friend of mine was killed in a hospital (she was in for treatment for a buildup of water in her legs) by being given 'heart medicine' that killed her - after being asked NOT to medicate for anything but the leg problem.

She was the third person I knew that died in a hospital this year - under highly questionable circumstances.

Posted by Ron C 2005-02-04 10:47:38 AM|| 2005-02-04 10:47:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Fred, Mucky provided a link yesterday that showed the prostitute/unemployment thing is a myth. Your feeling is otherwise well supported by evidence, though.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-04 10:56:38 AM|| 2005-02-04 10:56:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 as an unemployed gigolo I'd appreciate any references....

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-04 11:05:35 AM|| 2005-02-04 11:05:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Speaking of Mr. Muck4Doo, Happy Birthday! I didn't thinker he would last a year, but now he's an institution, not inner one.

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-04 4:04:59 PM|| 2005-02-04 4:04:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Happy Mirth Day, Bucky!

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-04 4:08:40 PM|| 2005-02-04 4:08:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Alternative name for the profession:

Sandman

Posted by Dishman 2005-02-04 4:20:35 PM|| 2005-02-04 4:20:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 You know, Fred, there's a LOT about Europe that's beginning to bug me. There's something in particular I don't get about the prostitution thing...

Time after time we're told how much more socially liberal Europe is than the US.

If everything's so peachy keen and socially liberal, why do they have all that prostitution?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-02-04 4:21:46 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-02-04 4:21:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Who gets to draft the "must kill" list?

Posted by Kalchas 2005-02-04 5:42:21 PM|| 2005-02-04 5:42:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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