I was shocked and saddened to read the news that Dr Edmund Pellegrino, 92, professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics and senior scholar at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics, passed away on June 13, just nine days before his 93rd birthday.
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