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. 2015 Mar 5:6:35.
doi: 10.4103/2152-7806.152733. eCollection 2015.

Bioethics and why I hope to live beyond age 75 attaining wisdom!: A rebuttal to Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's 75 age limit

Miguel A Faria Jr  1
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Bioethics and why I hope to live beyond age 75 attaining wisdom!: A rebuttal to Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's 75 age limit

Miguel A Faria Jr. Surg Neurol Int. .

Abstract

American bioethicists have been providing persuasive arguments for rationing medical care via the theory of the necessary "rational allocation of finite health care resources." Anticipating the need for the drastic rationing of medical care in the U.S. with the implementation of ObamaCare and assisted by various sectors of organized medicine in league with the State, bioethicists have deduced that more ingenious approaches are necessary to convince Americans who have been accustomed to receiving the best medical care that third-party payers are willing to pay for. It is in this context that the individual-based, patient-oriented ethics of Hippocrates, including his fundamental dictum, "First Do No Harm," have to be supplanted by the utilitarian approach promoted by the bioethicists. And today's foremost proponent of the bioethics movement is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. This editorial proposes a rational rebuttal to Dr. Emanuel's proposal to limit life expectancy to age 75 as a rational paradigm to a better life.

Keywords: Bioethics; ObamaCare; euthanasia; medical care rationing; medical ethics; utilitarianism.

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Bioethics Commission members, April 2013. Back row: Raju Kucherlapati, Ph.D., COL Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D., Nita A. Farahany, J.D., Ph.D., Daniel Sulmasy, M.D., Ph.D., John D. Arras, Ph.D., Anita L. Allen, J.D., Ph.D., Christine Grady, R.N., Ph.D. Front row: Stephen L. Hauser, M.D., Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., James W. Wagner, Ph.D., Barbara F. Atkinson, M.D. Photo courtesy of Bioethics.gov
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Representation of creativity in various arts and sciences
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Typical mental puzzle used to exercise mental function
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“Never too late to learn”
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Aristotle (right) and Plato in Raphael's fresco, “The School of Athens,” in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican
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Dr. Leo Alexander points to scars on the leg of Jadwiga Dzido at the Nuremburg Trials. The scars were the result of medical experiments on Dzido while imprisoned at the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. (December 22, 1946 photo. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives)
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