A Doctor's Witness; From a Culture of Life to a Culture of Death

     This book answers Fr. Hardon’s appeal, not only in its presentation of a medical practice conceived in and guided by the principles of faith, but also insofar as the author has been witness to the divorce of such principles from medicine.      Over the course of my career, I have watched as the traditional values of the medical profession, expressed in the Hippocratic Oath, gradually gave way to a new ethos that placed profit over service and pride over obedience to a divinely instituted natural order. Advances in medical technology made it possible for physicians to literally “play God,” meeting the needs and desires of their patients to a degree never before possible.  My concern here is not to capture a by-gone, golden age.      I hope with these recollections to encourage reflection on how the medical profession can escape from the mire of lies into which it has fallen. The backward glance here may help answer some fundamental questions. How can a Christian physician today mel