Ep. 1157 Baby Alfie: A Guide for Libertarians
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The parents of 23-month-old Alfie Evans, who suffered from some kind of neurodegenerative disorder, were told they could not take their child for treatment in Rome, where doctors stood willing to assist them. Dr. Michel Accad joins me for a libertarian analysis of this horrific episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1157. |
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| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:36.4 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Better late than never. I still want to cover the Alfie Evans |
| 0:41.3 | case, even though I was not able to at the time. I had a bunch of episodes done in advance, |
| 0:46.5 | and then I'm just running around, and I just could not make it work. But I want to cover |
| 0:51.2 | this story. Alfie Evans, in case you missed it, was that 23-month-old child in Liverpool who had some kind of degenerative neurological disorder, and his parents wanted to take him to Rome for treatment, but they were being told by authorities that this was not in their child's best interests. |
| 1:11.7 | So there's been a lot of controversy surrounding that case, and it's not entirely clear that libertarians are fully appreciating what's happened here. |
| 1:21.2 | And joining me to talk about this is Dr. Michelle Akad, who practices cardiology and internal medicine in San Francisco. |
| 1:30.8 | He blogs about health care and medicine at alert and oriented.com, and he's the author of Moving Mountains, |
| 1:37.6 | a Socratic challenge to the theory and practice of population medicine. |
| 1:42.1 | Dr. Akad, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:43.9 | Thank you very much for having me, |
| 1:45.4 | Zahm. This very disturbing issue has been more or less out of the news now for a week or so, |
| 1:52.6 | at least, maybe two. So there's a part of me that thinks, well, maybe I just missed this issue, |
| 1:57.9 | but there's too much that's important here to let my lateness get in the way. |
| 2:02.6 | I think we have to talk about it. |
| 2:04.2 | And you're a member of my supporting listeners Facebook group and in there. |
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