Saturday, July 12, 2003

LET PATIENTS DECIDE
Opinion Journal: "The attempt in Singapore to separate the large vein the twins shared didn't work. Ladan and Laleh are dead, and headlines have said a debate is "raging" over whether the surgery should have been tried. I've read those stories, and while one can find specialists who wouldn't have performed the operation, few people in medicine are saying the twins should have been stopped from tendering their lives to a team of 100 medical professionals. Almost everyone has said: Their choice."

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