Type post
Date August 21, 2017
Tagged , __edited , Coyne , Egnor , Ethics , Euthanasia , Jerry Coyne , Medical Doctors , medicine , Michael Egnor , Physician Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide and the Corruption of Medicine
Michael Egnor
August 21, 2017
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Episode 1045
Guest(s) Michael Egnor
Duration 00:08:57 Download Audio File (8.2 mb)
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On this episode of ID: The Future , neurosurgeon Michael Egnor talks about how enlisting doctors to perform assisted suicide is a betrayal of longstanding medical ethics. He describes it as an attempt to hijack the respectability of doctors to make the practice seem acceptable.
Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics , State University of New York, Stony BrookMichael R. Egnor, MD, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook, has served as the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and is an award-winning brain surgeon. He was named one of New York’s best doctors by the New York Magazine in 2005. He received his medical education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital. His research on hydrocephalus has been published in journals including Journal of Neurosurgery , Pediatrics , and Cerebrospinal Fluid Research . He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hydrocephalus Association in the United States and has lectured extensively throughout the United States and Europe.
