Nice Work if You Can Get It

Royal Gazette notes the very important bioethics session in Bermuda on ethical issues in living wills. It is wicked cold in Nova Scotia, so hold no grudge against Dr. Jeff Kirby and Dr. Christy Simpson of Dalhousie University bioethics department. Nor I suppose the Carribean's first bioethicist down in Jamaica. Well, maybe a little bit of a grudge against the last guy. What do you write in a living will in Bermuda, anyway?

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Hmmm -- I've been teaching bioethics at the UHSA medical school here in Antigua since Nov 2004; reminds me of the old adage at a small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two -- perhaps the same is true of bioethicists?

As a colleague of Christy and Jeff's, I feel duty-bound to point out that they also visit in the summer, when it's hot here and ferociously hot there. It's worth interrogating the quaint assumption "we" make that no real people with real lives (and a real interest in bioethics) live in these tourist destinations!

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