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1 HEC F. 1 (1989)

handle is hein.journals/hecforum1 and id is 1 raw text is: HE C FORUM, Vol 1, pp. 01-08, 1989. 0956-2737/89 $3.00+.00 Printed in the USA. All rights reserved. Copyright 0 1989 Pergamon Press plc EDITORS' INTRODUCTION ... as to the faculties of the mind... I find yet a greater equality among men than that of strength. For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. That which may perhaps make such equality incredible is but a vain conceit of one's own wisdom, which almost all men think they have in a greater degree than the vulgar -- that is, than all men but themselves and a few others whom by fame or for concurring with themselves, they approve. For such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves; for they see their own wit at hand and other men's at a distance. But this proves rather that men are in that point equal than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of anything than that everyman is contented with his share. Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan (1651) [Part I, Chap. 131 Hospital Ethics Committee Forum (HEC Forum) has been formed to serve as a forum for physicians, nurses, clergy, social workers, risk managers, attorneys, administrators, and other health professionals who have volunteered to serve on HECs and thereby to assist patients within our nation's seven-thousand hospitals, although at this writing such committees have been established in approximately one half to two thirds of the nation's hospitals. HEC Forum is not only for HEC members but, as this and subsequent issues will reveal, by them. The Editors therefore invite members to submit articles, case reviews, documents, and other items for publication in future issues to ensure uninterrupted publication; we also solicit contributions from HEC members on particular issues, problems, and themes that have emerged while carrying out the everyday responsibilities of good patient care. This means that the exotic and rarely seen patient cases and problems that tend to receive media attention under the rubric BIOETHICS will not constitute the 1

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