Legal Opinion
Blake v. Southcoast Health System, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided June 12, 2001No. Civ.A. 00-10591-WGYPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, Chief Judge.
The Hippocratic philosophy of medicine 1 declares that nothing should be more important to a physician than the best interests of the patient who comes to him for care.... Few people faced with a diagnosis of potentially remediable ... disease should be willing to give up the struggle if there is any reasonable chance that some promising form of treatment is available to lessen the ravages of the disease or cure it. To do anything less is not stoicism, but folly. 2
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