MY SAY: EZEKIEL EMANUEL A COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER AT A MEDICAL SCHOOL? HUH?
During its 46th commencement ceremony held at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at University of Pennsylvania addressed the graduates as commencement speaker and received an honorary degree.
How bizarre that a man who thinks people should die at age 75 rather than burden the medical system and who has also written (January 2015) that“screening healthy people who have no complaints is a pretty ineffective way to improve people’s health” should be honored and speaker at an institute ostensibly devoted to preventing and healing with no age cutoff. In fact Mt. Sinai Hospital has an excellent department of gerontology.
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