Former Gov. Dick Lamm in his office in Denver in November 2014. (Mark Leffingwell, Daily Camera file)
Re: “Former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm, at 80, reflects on term, 2016 campaign,” Sept. 27 Perspective interview.
As a fellow octogenarian, and a practicing family physician in Lakewood for more than a half-century, I take issue with our ex-governor’s non-sequitur comments on health care. Dick Lamm is not the first one to suggest we all have a “duty to die and get out of the way”; Shakespeare was much gentler and empathic when he said, “We all owe God a death,” not “get out of the way.”
When the ex-governor says, “Doctors take their ethical duties with no lateral vision — they don’t look at other needs of society … ,” he’s not recognizing the thousands of health care personnel who are volunteering at clinics and shelters across our land, including the Samaritan House, Jefferson Action Center, Doctors Care, to name a few in our metropolitan area. We don’t need more lateral vision; we need forward vision.
Glenn M. Cosh, Lakewood
The writer is a former president of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians.
This letter was published in the Oct. 4 edition.
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