ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION: Where do we draw the line? If your pet dog Sparky became suddenly ill, would you begin to perform experiments on your uncle Waldo to try to find a cure? Probably not, that would be ridiculous. Finding a cure for a nonhuman disease in a human is completely illogical. Y...

Debates about the ethics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) date back from Ancient Rome. Michigan Circuit Court judge Richard C. Kaufman, while presiding over a case involving the infamous Jack Kevorkian, and after extensive study into the subject writes: “The evidence is, then, th...

Introduction: Some time ago, I read an authoritative WHO publication with a guide to the “Five-Star Doctor” ‘…improves quality of care by responding to the patient’s total health needs with integrated preventive, curative and rehabilitative services while considering the patient as an i...