The physician, once called in to see a patient, has an open-ended responsibility for that patient's well-being. She or he has in the past worked through that responsibility in the terms we have noted: healing if possible, treating symptoms if not. The notion that the physician is really attending to consumer wants is novel. Not only so, it is subverting the whole system of health care in opening the door to medical killing; for if medicine is consumer driven, death may be what the consumer wants.

—R. C. Sproul, Playing God