medical ethical issue theme
Ethical issues relating to how physicians and other health care providers ought to behave in various situation, is explored.
Examples
"medical triage" involves choosing which patient to treat first and involves various ethical considerations that, perhaps, should not be left to individual whim.
6 total · 2 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| nightgallery0x01b | major | Dr. Frank Heatherton was blackmailed into removing the eyesight of one person in order to let Claudia Menlo see. |
| nightgallery2x09c | major | Dr. Stringfellow offered comforting lie to a dying girl. |
| ent2x26 | minor | Phlox was outraged by the lack of medical ethics displayed by Doctor Fer'at at Archer's medical examination. |
| movie: KPAX (2001) | minor | The psychiatrist Dr. Mark Powell criticized a colleague for being too quick to resort to the use of medication in treating mentally ill patients. |
| movie: The Man with Two Brains (1983) | minor | Dr. Hfuhruhurr's superior objected to Hfuhruhurr performing brain surgery on a woman he had hit with his car on that ground that Hfuhruhurr might be too emotionally invested. |
| nightgallery1x02b | minor | William Fall indicated that he had operated on someone while drunk, thus leading to his fall from grace. |