Medicine’s humility in the face of nature’s power has been lost, and with it has gone some of the moral authority of times past. With the vast increase in scientific knowledge has come a vast decrease in the acknowledgment that we still have control over far less than we would like. Physicians accept the conceit (in every sense of the word) that science has made us all-powerful and therefore the only proper judges of how our skills are to be used. The greater humility that should have come with greater knowledge is instead replaced by medical hubris: Since we can do so much, there is no limit
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