1:34:00
You did it?
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No decision is easy.
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lt only looks that way
when you're young.
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When you're older...
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...everything is complicated.
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There is no black and white.
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Only gray.
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But our society faces
momentous decisions.
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Decisions about the right to die...
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...about abortion,
about terminal illness...
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...prolonged coma, transplantation.
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Decisions about life and death.
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But society isn't deciding.
1:34:37
Congress isn't deciding.
The courts aren't deciding.
1:34:40
Religion isn't deciding. Why?
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Because society is leaving it
up to us, the experts.
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The doctors.
1:34:50
You're crazy.
1:34:51
Americans spend $ 1 25 billion
a year on health.
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More than defense.
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Because Americans believe
in medical care.
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These great hospital complexes
are the cathedrals of our age.
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Billions of dollars,
thousands of beds...
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...a whole nation of sick people
turning to us for help.
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You ought to see somebody.
1:35:21
They're children, Sue.
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They trust us.
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We can't tell them everything.
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Our job is to make things easier
for them. l'm sure you agree.
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You're killing people.
1:35:37
We must always take the long view...
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...not of the individual,
but of society as a whole...
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...because medicine is now
a great social force.
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The individual is too small.