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Well there’s the trolley dilemma up close and personal. I imagine those out there in the field have to think about this a lot more than the rest of us. Edit:

• throwup238 2y ago
  Doctors take an oath to do no harm. While they may triage frequently, they don’t explicitly sacrifice one living patient for another. The people playing the trolley game are the organ transplant board and the nonprofit in charge of the transplants for the state, which seriously screwed up here and tried to pressure doctors into doing harm.
  • AStonesThrow 2y ago
    Actually, they do not. It's not part of the Hippocratic Oath. They removed the abortion part too, y'know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
    • throwup238 2y ago
      Well, shit. That’s what I get for listening to House. I didn’t know there was an abortion part. Do they at least learn the classical version at school and leave the modern one for the professional oath?
      • pas 2y ago
        it's unclear even what it ever meant (except for the most literal meaning) """ The interpreted AD 275 fragment of the oath contains a prohibition of abortion that is in contradiction to original Hippocratic text On the Nature of the Child, which contains a description of an abortion, without any implication that it was morally wrong,[16] and descriptions of abortifacient medications are numerous in the ancient medical literature.[17] The oath's stance on abortion was unclear even in the ancient world where physicians debated whether the specification of pessaries was a ban on simply pessaries, or a blanket ban on all abortion methods. """
    • err4nt 2y ago
      see also the section about elective (medically unnecessary) surgeries and procedures too
• knallfrosch 2y ago
  What does murdering a patient to harvest organs have to do with the allocation of the organs later?