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And she wasn't talking about her pet doggie...

• "Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then 'tis time to do't. —Hell is murky. —Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" (Act 5, Scene 1)

• "Here's the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!" (Act 5, Scene 1)......

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Professor Pope notes the work of Gil Porat

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Gil Porat, a practicing hospitalist physician in Colorado, has just published a new novel titled The Other Face of Murder. "The story is about a young doctor, Jerry Weissman, who is devastated after he discovers one of his friends dead in his kitchen following a dinner party. As he investigates the complex methods and motives for her death, his long-held views about the dying process are challenged."

In an interview with his local paper, Porat explains that he hopes his book will prompt people to ask the questions we should be asking:

• Are we using too many resources to prolong life a few more days, when those resources could possibly be shifted to prevention or early treatment?
  
• Are we serving the patient or the family members' sense of obligation?
  
• Should we be dying in sterile institutions or at home?
• Should we - brace yourself - ration end-of-life care to avoid the looming health care crisis?
  
• Or is the greater risk that we'll allow doctors to play God?"

Porat says, "I want to start the debate that no one's talking about."

Posted by Thaddeus Mason Pope at 1:20 PM

New book: The Other Face of Murder

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