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"If Rosenbaum was playing god with his spin glasses the crystal was Adam, stubbornly refusing to obey His most fundamental law. Sharing Rosenbaum's curiosity about the strange property of the crystal compound was a young student called Sayantani Ghosh, one of his star Ph.D. candidates. Sai, as her friends called her, a native of India, had graduated with a first-class honors degree from Cambridge, and had then chosen Tom's lab for her doctoral program in 1999." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Identifying Additives Food companies sometimes seem to the outsider to be playing god with our health and our lives because of their use of additives, preservatives and artificial colourings. However, consumers have some help, as there are now government guidelines controlling food labelling. All ingredients in a manufactured food must be listed on the label or packaging somewhere in descending order by weight. For those of us who are asthmatic and allergic to certain additives, or who are following a restricted diet, knowledge of the ingredients is vital." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"In addition to my own publications decrying the discordance between the zeal for cardiovascular invasiveness and the science demonstrating any benefit for patients, see Friedman, "Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery" (1990); Schoenbaum, "Toward Fewer Procedures and Better Outcomes" (1993); and Herman, "Reflections on Playing God" (1993). Cardiovascular disease is the largest source of health-care spending in the United States." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"Critics accused doctors of playing god, which may have been true. At the same time, the medical literature showed that many caring physicians felt they were providing the kindest and best service for their patients. The presentation of survival statistics still generates a spirited debate among both physicians and padents. The world has changed and now it is lawyers who are criticized for playing god by forcing physicians to present disease and treatment information to patients in what seems to be the most negative manner possible. . ." - Dan Labriola, Complementary Cancer Therapies: Combining Traditional and Alternative Approaches for the Best Possible Outcome (Get the book.)

"Rather than trying to "control" a person's health by playing god with high-tech medicine, a new way of looking at health has emerged that considers a human being as a whole, with an interconnected mind and body designed to adapt to health if the circumstances are right. Of course, this adaptive capacity is not the same for everyone. We are each born with different strengths and weaknesses and different levels of resilience—some of us have what is popularly called "good genes" or come from "good stock," and some of us do not." - Patrick Holford, The New Optimum Nutrition Bible (Get the book.)

"Weeder finds that the experiences of his four years of medical training gave him an almost palpable sense of "playing God" that in its responsibility over life and death was both "outrageous and blasphemous." Just as, according to Steiner, the Mexican apprentice developed a certain mood of soul through his ritual murder of victims, so Weeder found that playing god in the hospital has an insidious way of changing his state of mind in all aspects of his life. "He was becoming an expert on everything." - Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.)

"To paraphrase a story of Larry LeShan's: Doctors are busy playing god when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken. playing god leads to self-destruction. Many colleges are now trying to teach compassion through courses in humanistic medicine, but perhaps the admission of more women to the profession will gradually do more to end this pathetic bravado. The best physicians are those who can find both the "masculine" and "feminine" virtues that exist within their personalities—the ability to make tough decisions and yet remain compassionate and caring." - Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients (Get the book.)

"Perhaps in response to our own unrealistic expectations, we begin to imagine and to become concerned that our doctors might be "playing God." This is partly a fear and partly a desperate hope. The phrase is interesting. It implies a certain conception of what God is or does, and imagines that we can now begin to be and do likewise. It has a Promethean hubris and self-flattery about it that either overestimates our own powers or denigrates any meaningful conception of the powers of God. The conceit that we are playing god is, itself, and somewhat charmingly, all too human." - John D. Lantos, M.D., Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Get the book.)

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