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I am not sure why someone else's morals should dictate my life. If you don't want to do all the duties of a doctor, don't be a doctor. Back up a few hundred ye
by RogerL 13y ago
I am not sure why someone else's morals should dictate my life. If you don't want to do all the duties of a doctor, don't be a doctor.
Back up a few hundred years, and by some it was considered immoral to cut into a person. It was immoral to dissect a corpse for study. Heck, we still have people that think it is immoral to give medicine. Shall we allow Christian Scientists to take the Hippocratic oath and then refuse to medicate based on a moral stand? No thank you. Find another job if this job offends you.
End of life is far more important to get right than the above (IMO). At least while I am sane and mobile I could realize that my doctor thinks medicine is immoral and go find alternative care. But in my last days I'm not going anywhere, I'm not making any decisions, I just get to suffer, or not.
My morals say unremitting suffering is torture. I submit my morals trump your morals when it is my life, and only my life, in question.