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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.
Photo by Nathan Jacobson for Discovery Institute (CC-BY) 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. His book, The Immortal Mind: A neurosurgeon’s case for the existence of the soul, co-authored by Denyse O’Leary, was published by Worthy on June 3, 2025.
