Ezekiel Emanuel Quotes

Ezekiel Emanuel — American Scientist

Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel is an American bioethicist and fellow at the Center for American Progress. He opposes legalized euthanasia, and is a proponent of a voucher-based universal health care. He was an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School,Before he joined the National Institutes of Health in 1998. As of September 2011 he serves as the Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and holds a joint appointment at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School... (wikipedia)

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama has steadily increased funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was created by President Bush and has strong bipartisan support.

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.