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Thanksgiving and the Myopia of Bioethics
Steve Miles, the physician ethicist who has often written to this blog and who certainly isn't myopic reminded a bioethics listserv today with the following truism. I probably am just as guilty as all the rest as I gave thanks today. ..Maurice.
It is Thanksgiving.
For my US colleagues, friends, students, teachers and lurkers on this list,
take the day off. Our musings on
dead brains,
stem cells,
Jehovah's Witnesses,
sperm from dead guys,
and caring people of either gender trying to eek out a living on Gilligan's
Island
should pause so that we may reflect on the significance that our water is so
predictably and universally clean and available from indoor taps at any
temperature we desire that we do not even include it in our thanks or our
bioethics.
A billion people do not have potable water, let alone hot and cold indoor
taps.
2.5 million people die every year for want.
Steven Miles, MD
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