presidents worth more than us? Options

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So I recently came across this article on yahoo news. One section struck me as odd:

Several surgeons uninvolved in Clinton's care said they didn't think his doctors would risk treating him with newer, experimental approaches like robotic surgery or laparoscopy, sometimes called keyhole surgery.


"With three-vessel disease in a president, I don't think I'd be doing it," said Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood, chief of cardiovascular surgery at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., and a spokesman for the American College of Cardiology.

Does this mean that average people are less important than presidents? Or what? Because if these procedures are "dangerous" then why would it be okay to do them on other people and risk their lives more than the lives of presidents? It worries me you know... hm.

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Exactly, because I think there are different ways a person can judge other people of their worth. Accomplishments are a plus of course, but people tend to agree and disagree on what is a good and bad, and I think there are those in this world who would say that what Clinton has done in office aren't really major accomplishments. We weight these things differently, which is a good thing.







I wonder though. When doctors test a new medical proceedure on someone, don't they need his/her consent? I thought that these things are usually done on volunteers....

well the thing is, they aren't testing the new procedures, it's already been tested. it's just new, so the results are kind of fickle. But i dont exactly understand your view now?