Pros And Cons Of David Reimer

After graduating from high school, I had several options to choose from concerning my higher education. The only option that I automatically removed was medical school. Though I am a humanitarian person, and my parents were craving seeing me in a white coat, I still refused to follow this career. The reason behind my decision was that I could not stand the idea of how a single mistake I make may cost someone’s life. I am aware that doctors are human beings who commit mistakes as anyone else, but I know that a medical mistake would destroy me. The guilt will merely devastate me. Therefore, after watching a documentary about David Reimer, my decision was proved one more time to be right.
The damage that Dr. Money brought to David and his family is simply outraging. The number of crimes he committed are countless. First, he accepted to treat the Reimer’s damaged boy not out of what his profession requires him to do or out of empathy, but he managed to take advantage …show more content…
Diamond. The society should be responsible to both support and protect individuals who face difficult situations. Effective moral support and a serious follow up of the situation are both vital to the wellbeing of these individuals. I believe if the Reimer’s had an ethical, responsible and serious counselor, they would not have made the mistake to agree blindly on Dr. Money’s experiment. Moreover, if they had a counselor who had known what the evil doctor had suggested, maybe he/she would have made the necessary arrangements to pursue the unethical psychologist. The support should not be reserved only for the decisions makers but also to the ones who bear the burden of those decisions: the twins in this case. God only knows what these two victims have been through or what kind of feelings and thoughts crossed their minds. The fact that they both eventually committed suicide proves that there was no concrete support to their aching