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## On Roshoshana it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed Who shall live and who shall die . . . Life and death. Sickness and health. In ancient times, these were the province of the Divine, or fate, or good and bad humors, or the nuances of the immune system, or the individual's own ability to ward off disease by whatever means he or she could muster. Things are different now. Thanks to the science of medicine, we can intervene. To a certain degree, humankind can decide who shall live and who shall die. People live who used to die. Thanks to antibiotics and vaccines, infectious diseases, once the major cause of death from infancy to old age, are now largely curable or preventable. Childhood leukemias and testes cancer, once a death sentence, are now mostly cured. Renal failure, which used to be the most common cause of death in spinal cord injury, is rarely seen. Practically no one ever dies because of bladder stones, which claimed the life of Peter the Great. Even if you begin to die, cardiopulmonary resuscitation may bring you back from the brink of death. People die who used to live. Thanks to Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein and Idi Amin and Adolph Hitler and biologic and chemic

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Author

Jerry G. Blaivas

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0733-2467)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)