Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuelis an American oncologist and bioethicist and fellow at the Center for American Progress. He was an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School, before joining the National Institutes of Health in 1998. He has served as the Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy since September 2011 and holds a joint appointment at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
I think what this shows is that even in the midst of the debate, it is largely irrelevant, ... It's not the sum and substance of improving end-of-life care.
When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated… The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.
We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.
Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.
Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.