Status Updates From Prescription Medicide

"Only the very loud and persistent voices of those who really count--those who by the very nature of their circumstances are sincere and must be taken seriously--would be powerful enough to arouse public opinion. I realized that this is the one force politicians would never dare oppose and cannot long resist."

"... if doctors persist in conjuring up indefensible reasons to abstain and thereby witness the further erosion of their rightful prerogatives. They have not yet learned that, ultimately, unjustified inaction in the face of increasing demand for action eventually leads to the loss of the mandate to act; and that others will assume that mandate."