Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Defeated | House M.D.." video.

  1. "You confused saving a life with doing the right thing..." WTF does that even mean, woman?! I'd expect a doctor to consider saving a life AS THE RIGHT THING in all cases, even when saving that life may mean doing the 'wrong' thing. How can you uphold your oath otherwise?
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  2. That statement becomes problematic depending on how you define "doing the right thing". What if a law was passed that said all (insert race here) patients were to receive no treatment and were to be euthanized on the spot. If a person from that group came to Dr You for help, wouldn't the objectively 'right' thing to do be to treat their issue like you would for any other human? Or would the 'right' thing be to go "I'd like to help you, but I'm sorry the law is the law, HEY, there's one over here! Guard!" [racks rifle bolt]. Dr Mengele thought he was doing the right thing and advancing medical science when he was allowed and encouraged to murder countless twin children and other prisoners in WW2 Germany concentration camps, and the scariest part is that he actually did. Although the source is horrific much of the data collected from their horrendous, heinous human experiments is still used as a knowledge base today, because we won't test things like drugs or freezing or low pressure chambers on living, healthy humans until they die...but we can at the very least give those murders some meaning through using that data to save lives today. It's how we know how aspirin works, for example. It advanced our space program. It also led to the global adoption of medical ethics designed to prevent such atrocities from ever being allowed to happen again.
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