I believe because of a doctor’s critical position placed between life and death, sometimes they are obliged to play God. I do not think doctors should infringe patients’ rights by forcing their moral opinions on patients that are capable of making their own decision, but on a case by case circumstance, it might be important for a doctor to step in and make an ethical decision for a patient. In case II, the four patients were not going to gain any form of life back and were surviving because of the respirators. The patients would have remained in their same state if the nurse had not unplugged the patients from their machines. While she made a decision based on her personal beliefs, the patients were never going to regain
I believe because of a doctor’s critical position placed between life and death, sometimes they are obliged to play God. I do not think doctors should infringe patients’ rights by forcing their moral opinions on patients that are capable of making their own decision, but on a case by case circumstance, it might be important for a doctor to step in and make an ethical decision for a patient. In case II, the four patients were not going to gain any form of life back and were surviving because of the respirators. The patients would have remained in their same state if the nurse had not unplugged the patients from their machines. While she made a decision based on her personal beliefs, the patients were never going to regain