A leading authority on medical ethics Dr. Jay Katz, a psychoanalyst and a professor at Yale Law School whose research was on conflicting interests and motivations of doctors and patients. Dr. Jay Katz wrote a book in 1984 titled "The Silent World of Doctor and Patient," which examined the complex elements that profile the physician-patient relationship and hold back the medical decision-making process. "There is persistent confusion between research and [clinical] practice and the obfuscation of the two," Katz told The Times in 1994. …show more content…
Jack Kevorkian also known as Dr. Death; was an advocate aimed at doctor-assisted suicide for people whom were suffering from terminal or severely painful diseases. Dr. Kevorkian stated that euthanasia is a person's "last civil right" and held doctors responsible for not defending it. Upon assisting the two women commit suicide; he compared medical ethics in the United States to those of Nazi doctors. The women killed themselves in a secluded cabin using equipment that was provided by Dr. Kevorkian. The women, Sherry Miller and Marjorie Wantz both suffered from diseases that were chronic but not terminal. Dr. Kevorkian was charged with first-degree murder for the death Janet Adkins who had Alzheimer's disease. He helped her commit suicide in his van, he had hooked up Adkins to a machine, and she pushed a button giving herself a lethal