Friday, January 9, 2009
Dr.
While watching Grey's Anatomy last night a few hard subjects seem to be coming up. Is it possible for Doctors to put aside their emotions in order to treat every patient the same. Understandably anyone whose father was life was ended by a criminal is going to harbor bad feelings for criminals, but should they give them any less care because of it? Another hard situation what if a female doctor strongly disagrees with abortion, will she treat a patient who has had an abortion the same as anyone else? Unless you go to a very low key practice the doctors do not really know you they know what is on your chart, how can they not make judgments when all they know is what you've been through not what you have become because of it. The other subject brought up in Grey's Anatomy ,which will appear next week, is should we let prisoners who are sentenced to die help someone else live? This subject also came up in a book I have previously read Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. In the book the criminal, who wasn't entirely guilty, was hung instead of given the normal medical injections in order to give his heart to a girl of the family whom he supposedly slaughtered. Personally I believe that if they are now willing to help, even it is after they know they have nothing left. They should be able to. Why make not only them, but also a deserving person suffer? It seems like a good plan from that angle but just thinking about it right now I have forgotten to take into account how the person getting the organ would feel. Honestly I'm not sure how badly I would want an organ from a serial killer, but then again I'm not in that hard of a situation. It's a complex situation and I guess it is up to the people who want to give up their organs and get them. But I think the more people we can help if we are going to impose the death penalty anyway the better off the world will be.
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