Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series,
vol. 136, pages 309-314. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale,
2005.
He taught medical ethics at Yale University, and was a surgeon at Yale-New Haven Hospital for three decades. He was critical of the medical profession's obsession with prolonging life when common sense would dictate that further treatment is futile. He helped foster discussion about end-of-life decisions.
There is a great deal of argument about whether we, as the great nation we are, should be the policeman of the world. But there should virtually no argument about whether we would be the world's healer.
The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.