Medical Ethics

 

 

Medical Ethics

The day before yesterday, I had a disagreement with an acquaintance. This person was hailing the virtues of the CDC after they gave the order to leave “service” dogs behind in Afghanistan, which upset me greatly. She was accusing others of “finding someone to corroborate what you already believe,” not “knowing how anything works, let alone the human body,” nor “how your radio works, let alone the internet.”

This person seemed to think the CDC was some kind of great thing. I cited the Nuremberg Code, point one, in showing how people are being fired from their jobs, kept from travel, being docked of their wages, and removed from some segments of society (restaurants, etc.) This goes against the mandate that people should not be coerced in any way into accepting any kind of medical procedure against their will. She either agrees with these punishments or does not believe they are happening.

She then goes on to state that the government is protecting the weak and vulnerable while posting an affirming statement on the practice of abortion the very next day. She stated I was a disservice, just as deadly as the Covid virus, a vector of disease, and a pustule of ignorance. All for having a negative opinion of the CDC and being against punishing people for personal health care choices. I guess that these choices are fine when you are murdering an unborn baby, but verboten otherwise.

I was then treated to a lecture in medical ethics by a friend of hers that went on and on about how great these scientists are, but then said “I’m so sick of this, seriously. If only I could choose to treat only vaccinated patients but that is the oath I took.” So, in other words, she’d choose to let people die. Great ethics.

I have seen medical ethics in practice. It was in 1996 that Nova produced a documentary called Ebola- The Plague Fighters. A group of doctors went to Africa to study the Ebola outbreak there that killed many. These doctors did not go to help the people, only to study the disease.

It was discovered that the burial practices of many involved touching the corpse before it was buried, exacerbating the problem. The doctors set up a ward where they studied patients as they wasted away and died in excruciating detail. Black fluids would issue from eyes, the nose, mouth and ears. From every orifice of the body. As brain cells were infected and died, people would gradually lose the ability to even think, which resulted in a disturbing stare in their last surviving days.

Very few survived but some did manage to fight off the Ebola virus. Nurses were charged with cleaning up the mess that was left on patients and their cots. Unfortunately, one of the nurses, a staff favorite, came down with the virus.

A debate started whether convalescent blood from a survivor should be used in a transfusion to try to save the nurses life. Every single doctor with the exception of one voted against attempting to save her life, even after she had been volunteering to help them in their job, putting herself on the line. “It’s against the scientific method,” the doctors explained in their reasoning to deny her treatment.

The one doctor who dissented decided to do the moral thing and do the transfusion anyhow. The nurse would die without the treatment. The nurse began to respond to the treatment and recover.

When the remaining doctors found out, they were LIVID with outrage. How dare you go against the consensus? We had a vote! How dare you attempt to save this nurses life? They were yelling and screaming and storming around. None of them cared that the nurse’s life had been saved. All they cared about was their precious scientific method.

This is my experience with “Medical Ethics,” and I remember it vividly to this day. And yes, I absolutely did point out the hypocrisy, immorality and evil intentions of these scientists every single year I showed the documentary to my students as part of the curriculum.

This is another example of how word meanings have been changed to suit a philosophy, one which I question. Medical ethics, indeed.