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Maybe I’m oversimplifying here, but is it really that complex of an issue in this case? The two of them together faced almost certain death. In most versions of

by jrs95 9y ago

Maybe I’m oversimplifying here, but is it really that complex of an issue in this case? The two of them together faced almost certain death. In most versions of the trolley problem, the potential victim of action isn’t going to die either way. To me, the more interesting moral aspect of this is that a surgeon who hadn’t done this before accepted the case because it would be interesting and challenging. I’m only paraphrasing a little; that was basically his description of it in the article.

jacquesm 9y ago
You are technically correct, but that still did not make any of it any easier, the doctor must have been fully conscious that severing the artery between the girls would lead to an end of the weaker one, especially after testing it by temporarily restricting the artery and seeing how fast the weaker girl went down.
- trhway 9y ago
  (IANAD of course, just too much of Grey's Anatomy and House) i wonder why they didn't place her on bypass before the cut and didn't try to correct her heart or find a heart transplant for her.
pedro_hab 9y ago
Yeah, the doctors I've talked to tend to say the same. A neurosurgeon seeing a MRI or CT scan of my wife's brain said it would be amusing to see her brain's tissues, but fortunately it was not needed. I had a surgery in my hips which the doctor said the same, he wanted to do the surgery to improve his research and even asked me to use my files, anonymously obviously, in his presentations and research. I think we all are interested in our work, and he said that every case is different, I'm not sure if experience would help much.
gmueckl 9y ago
My first reaction was the same, but further down he mentions a team of 50 people involved in the procedure itself, including a couple of other doctors. This implies that the whole thing was a huge team effort, and not just a one man show for the thrill. I do wonder how much effort it took in total to prepare this procedure. CT, MRT, research, rapid prototyping of bones and other structures for analysis and practice runs... it seems they used all the tools they could.

by jrs95 9y ago

jacquesm 9y ago

You are technically correct, but that still did not make any of it any easier, the doctor must have been fully conscious that severing the artery between the girls would lead to an end of the weaker one, especially after testing it by temporarily restricting the artery and seeing how fast the weaker girl went down.

trhway 9y ago
(IANAD of course, just too much of Grey's Anatomy and House) i wonder why they didn't place her on bypass before the cut and didn't try to correct her heart or find a heart transplant for her.

pedro_hab 9y ago

Yeah, the doctors I've talked to tend to say the same. A neurosurgeon seeing a MRI or CT scan of my wife's brain said it would be amusing to see her brain's tissues, but fortunately it was not needed. I had a surgery in my hips which the doctor said the same, he wanted to do the surgery to improve his research and even asked me to use my files, anonymously obviously, in his presentations and research. I think we all are interested in our work, and he said that every case is different, I'm not sure if experience would help much.

gmueckl 9y ago

My first reaction was the same, but further down he mentions a team of 50 people involved in the procedure itself, including a couple of other doctors. This implies that the whole thing was a huge team effort, and not just a one man show for the thrill. I do wonder how much effort it took in total to prepare this procedure. CT, MRT, research, rapid prototyping of bones and other structures for analysis and practice runs... it seems they used all the tools they could.