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去百度文库,查看完整内容>内容来自用户:叫我麦琪Unite3Doctor’sDilemma: Treat or Let Die?Abigail Trafford1. Medical advancesin wonder drugs, daring surgical proceres, radiation therapies, and intensive-care units have brought new life to thousands of people. Yet to many of them, modern medicine has become a double-edged sword.2. Doctor’s powerto treat with an array of space-agetechniques has outstrippedthe body’s capacity to heal. More medical problems can be treated, but for many patients, there is little hope of recovery. Even the fundamental distinction between life and death has been blurred.3. Many Americans are caught in medical limbo, as was the South Korean boxerDukKoo Kim, who was kept alive by artificialmeansafter he had been knocked unconscious in a fight and his brain ceased to function. With the permission of his family, doctors in Las Vegas disconnected the life-support machines and death quickly followed.4. In the wake oftechnology’s advances in medicine, a heated debate is taking place in hospitals and nursing homes across the country---over whether survival or quality of life is the paramount goal of medicine.5. “It gets down to what medicine is all about, ” says Daniel Callahan, d