Throughout the episode, Stairway to Heaven, the doctors swayed between acting upon their ethics or morals. According to Vermont Ethics Network, ethics are “a set of moral principles, beliefs and values that guide [them] in making choices about medical care.” According to the Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English, morals are “a person’s standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do.” Although ethics and morals seem very similar, there is one important piece that I think makes them totally different. Ethics refer to rules provided by external sources, not by an individual. Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong. The tricky thing about going by an individual’s morals
