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Beware the slippery slope.

How large a step is it from terminating the life of people who are

"unable


to
make the decision to end their own life", to terminating people
"who
are
not
capable of making the *right* decision, and want to go on living"?

Wow! Chuck and I agree.



Was done lots years ago. Baby born without a brain, the doctors put
the
baby to the side and let them die.

Better check your story there Bill. Babies born without a brain
aren't
alive.



They are born with very little of the brain, and it is open to the
world.


Now it's "born with very little brain"? Before it was "born *without* a
brain". The term for the condition you are now referring to is
anencephaly. Yes, an anencephalic baby can be alive for a short while.
No, a baby "born without a brain" cannot live.

As for my being a dentist...
We had two semesters studying cranial-facial development. I can tell
you all you need to know about neural tube defects and cranial-facial
abnormalities. Riley's Childrens' Hospital in Indianapolis (which is
adjacent to the dental school), has one of the premier cranio-facial
reconstructive teams in the World. One of the members of the team, Dr.
RR Hathaway, was my instructor for those two semesters. He's been
published plenty of times in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.







Okay...you're the expert in how faces should look. So...explain your
looks...



Speaking of explaining looks...
I had a lady come in today after 5 months of wearing a denture that I
made her. She complained that people have recently noticed that the
teeth aren't straight (even though for 5 months she had been perfectly
happy with them). She has a drooping right upper lip, so when she's not
smiling, more of the teeth are showing on the left than on the right.
When she smiles, her lip is straight, and consequently the teeth look
straight. She told me that all of her family members were commenting
over Thanksgiving that her new denture wasn't straight. That, of course,
told me that she must not smile a lot when her family is around. But how
do you explain that to a patient?






With a lot of tact and patience...which you don't have?
HAve your wife do it. She has to have lots of both...

I just suggested to my patient that she spend more time hanging around
people who make her smile.

As for my wife...
She *used to* have patience, but now she has three boys under the age of 5
running around the house.