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> Ketchum often hears from aging test subjects looking for information about what the Army did to them. “I need to know everything that happened to me because i
by stagbeetle 10y ago
> Ketchum often hears from aging test subjects looking for information about what the Army did to them. “I need to know everything that happened to me because it could give me some peace and fewer nightmares,” one veteran wrote to him. In such cases, Ketchum responds with a mixture of defensiveness and empathy. “Well, Mike,” he wrote to another veteran, “I guess some people find it satisfying to look back and condemn what doctors and others did half a century ago, especially if it lends itself to sensationalized movies, and entitles them to disability pensions.”
Well.
- eternalban 10y agoThis doctor is notable for the consistency of his character. The Ketchum Oath supersedes the Hippocratic one: "Do harm for the greater good!". This greater good angle -- even God regrettably hides behind this -- is possibly the most pernicious moral puzzle presented to humanity. But in defense of God, at least in that (hypothetical if you wish) case there is a guarantee that the asserted "greater good" and in fact the "good end" are certain to come to pass. I think it plain evil, this greater good fig leaf, whenever we are not clearly afforded certitude of the desired outcome.