George J. Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Chairman of
Health Law Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. He
holds a degree in law from Harvard Law School and an M.P.H. from the Harvard
School of Public Health. He is a widely published national expert in the field
of law and medicine, whose books include The Rights of Patients and Some
Choice: Law, Medicine and the Market.
Professor Annas is the cofounder of Global Lawyers & Physicians and the
Patients Rights Project. Professor Annas has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nightline,
Frontline, Today, and Good Morning America as well as the nightly news programs
of NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox. For five years, he was the director of the Boston
University School of Laws Center for Law and Health Sciences. Professor Annas
teaches bioethics.
"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"