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Abraham Lincoln

2/21/2015

 
This is not a bioethics post, but State propaganda intrigues me so I felt compelled to share.  Recently, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator visited the Montessori school my daughter and elder son attend.  At the conclusion of his Lincoln portrayal, he gave each child a bookmark.  

One side of the bookmark, interspersed with black-and-white photographs of a log cabin, Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd standing arm in arm, and the White House, reads as follows:

HIS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
"I'll Study, Get Ready, My Chance Will Come"
LINCOLN'S GUIDING
PRINCIPLE
Matthew 22:37-38
Love the Lord your God with all 
your heart all your soul all your
mind and love thy neighbor as
thyself, all the laws of the prophets 
hang on these two commandments.
HIS HISTORIC FINISH
"Four Score and Seven Years Ago …"

The other side of the bookmark, beneath a picture of Lincoln sitting on his throne at the Lincoln Memorial, reads as follows:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
16th President of the United States
"Saved Our Nation"
WORDS HE LIVED BY
Adversity - Adversities are just
   installments on later successes.
Bible - The Greatest Gift God ever
   gave to man.
Ridicule - I have endured a great deal
   of Ridicule without much malice and
   I have received a great deal of
   kindness, not quite free from ridicule.
Achievement - The way for a young
   man to rise is to improve himself
   every way he can.
Humor - Laughter is medicine to my
   bones.
Altruism - I have an irrepressible
   desire to live till I can be assured
   that the world is a little better for
   me having lived in it.
Mercy - Have malice toward none
   and charity for all.
Slavery - If slavery isn't wrong,
   nothing is wrong.
     Love - Love thy neighbor as
        thyself.
     Integrity - I am not bound to 
        win, I am bound to be true.
     Forgiveness - I am always
        willing to forgive on the 
        Christian terms of repentance.
     Emancipation - All men are
        created equal.

The State propaganda technique of creating a child's poem with each line starting, in sequence, with a letter from a ruler's name is not new.  I recall a Kuwaiti poem utilizing George W. Bush's name.  I bet Stalin and Hitler and Mao have been "honored" in the same way.

Bizarre.

Genomics-Driven Oncology: Framework for an Emerging Paradigm

2/14/2015

 
Levi Garraway's article entitled "Genomics-Driven Oncology: Framework for an Emerging Paradigm" is the second paper in the May 20, 2013 edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology to address "the ethical return of genetic results to oncologists and their patients."  Unfortunately such ethical issues are discussed in only two paragraphs.  LIBERTARIAN BIOETHICS BLOGger NOT HAPPY!!!

The first paragraph notes the typical pros and cons cited by bioethicists "regarding the extent to which such results should be returned to patients and their physicians."  Pros include beneficence, respect for persons, and incentivizing participation in clinical trials.  Cons include the need for additional staffing to explain the results to physicians/patients and the possibility of poor decision-making by physicians/patients based on genetic variants of unknown significance.  The second paragraph admits that "a substantial majority of patients … prefer to receive their individual research results in exchange for enrolling onto clinical studies based on these data."  The author then recommends creation of a protocol to guide the ethical return of genetic results to physicians/patients.  Garraway envisions empirical development of such a protocol via multiple ethical genetic studies performed synchronously in conjunction with multiple clinical genetic studies. 

My analysis: The potential negatives of releasing genetic results to physicians/patients are perceived to be so minor by the average patient that the average patient, who usually fears anything associated with genetics (e.g. the anti-GMO craze), insists on access to such results.  I agree with the average patient.  Elitists beware, for the average patient is not as stupid as you believe. 

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    Don Stacy is a 43 yo libertarian writer and physician and bioethics graduate student.  His articles have been published by multiple libertarian-themed websites.  He practices medicine as a radiation oncologist in Louisville, KY and Jeffersonville, IN.     

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