...foresight to resist before the first step was taken, and they acted unanimously and won out in the end. It is obvious that if the medical profession of a...likewise have resisted had they not taken the fatal first step. It is the first seemingly innocent step away from principle that frequently decides a career...

...could be successful, the Germans backed down. As psychiatrist Leo Alexander noted after World War II, "if the medical profession of a small nation under...likewise have resisted had they not taken the fatal first step."20 Yet, less than thirty years later, health care for the terminally ill in the Netherlands changed....