IN the late 1970s and even 80s, it was not uncommon for physicians to assert that patients had needs, not rights. Patients had a “need”, and the doctor with his vast experience and training ...

Medical Students for Choice, a nonprofit formed in 1993 by medical students as a response to the lack of abortion education ...

The clinicians and the patients, in many ways ... I sent him an email, he replied: I’ll talk when the time is right. He hasn’t in the past said very nice things about the FDA.