PEDIATRICS Vol. 70 No. 6 December 1982, pp. 906
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DEATH AND LAWYERS

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It is perhaps difficult to write dispassionately about the constant intrusions of the legal profession into the practice of medicine, . . . yet what is one to think of thugs roaming the streets unpunished and the backlog in the criminal courts mounting to high heaven while judges tinker with respirators and ponder on the indications for dialysis? Even some of the legislators in Congress are now beginning to think that the courts are all too often exceeding the bounds of their prerogatives in a variety of social issues.

. . . so skewed are the prevailing arrangements that doctors are constantly being told that they must not play God, while judges, being "detached but passionate," always may.