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PAUL HSIEH: The Wisconsin Protests And The New Medical Ethics. ?During the recent Wisconsin protes?

By Glenn Reynolds

PAUL HSIEH: The Wisconsin Protests And The New Medical Ethics. “During the recent Wisconsin protests pitting the public-sector teachers? union against a governor attempting to rein in their overly generous benefits, several doctors were caught on camera apparently handing out fake work excuses to the protesters. Although this might seem an outrageous breach of professional ethics, it is actually entirely consistent with the new brand of ‘progressive’ medical ethics currently taught to medical students. And these apparent breaches of professional ethics displayed in Wisconsin may be an ominous foretaste of future problems Americans can expect under ObamaCare. . . . Medical school ethics courses are thus increasingly emphasizing ’social justice’ over traditional notions of ethics ? or the individual patient?s welfare. But ’social justice’ is frequently just a euphemism for a socialist political agenda of leftist politics, redistribution of wealth, and heavy state controls over the marketplace.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).