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A conversation about the right of physician-assisted...
with John Collins, Howard Grossman and Sherwin Nuland on Jan 8, 1997
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with John Collins, Howard Grossman and Sherwin Nuland on Jan 8, 1997
Howard Grossman is a board-certified internist with a private practice in Manhattan.
Grossman is a general practitioner, but is most widely known as a specialist in HIV medicine. His work with people affected by HIV lead him to become one of the plaintiffs in the landmark suit Vacco v. Quill, et al., which sought to overturn laws preventing terminally-ill patients from obtaining their physicians’ help to end their own lives. The case was decided in 1997, with the Supreme Court finding no constitutional guarantee of “the right to die,” but leaving the door open for states to experiment with various options.
Dr. Grossman earned a B.A. in political science at Haverford College and studied medicine at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn. He did his residency at Kings County Hospital, one of the largest public hospitals in Brooklyn. It was there that he saw some of the first cases of AIDS in the early 1980s.
