As a person who has worked in emergency care, our objective was to save lives and not make judgment calls on the personal decisions of the people we were treating- drug addicts, prostitutes, criminals, alcoholics, brain injured, HIV, syphilis, TB. It was not our decision their quality of life after treatment, or whether they were "worth" saving. All of us had the goal to "save". And we put ourselves at risk to do it.
This decision will have severe impact on the medical field as a whole. Now we become the arbiter of who lives and dies based on our own sense of morality and justice?!
Many wont but the medical field has its sociopaths and sadists who are only held back somewhat by what the normal standard of care is and what we have been taught over and over again..we don't make distinctions....but now the governor opened that door to make distinctions. And the mentally and morally weak will do it. And like anything else, over time, it will become the standard. We must fight against this.
I dunno, I've been to a few ER's and you go in there looking as square as leave it to beaver, and they always assume that you are some STD infested, drug addict, sex fiend. When their first check is to not listen to anything you say and run the std panel on you, it's not really saving lives. Maybe the ER folks just get to a point where they are just desensitized and calloused, but in my experience I've seen a lot of assholes in the ER.
As a person who has worked in emergency care, our objective was to save lives and not make judgment calls on the personal decisions of the people we were treating- drug addicts, prostitutes, criminals, alcoholics, brain injured, HIV, syphilis, TB. It was not our decision their quality of life after treatment, or whether they were "worth" saving. All of us had the goal to "save". And we put ourselves at risk to do it.
This decision will have severe impact on the medical field as a whole. Now we become the arbiter of who lives and dies based on our own sense of morality and justice?!
Death panels are here.
Not YOUR sense of morality and justice.
Bill Gate's sense of power and coersion.
Well said...
Many wont but the medical field has its sociopaths and sadists who are only held back somewhat by what the normal standard of care is and what we have been taught over and over again..we don't make distinctions....but now the governor opened that door to make distinctions. And the mentally and morally weak will do it. And like anything else, over time, it will become the standard. We must fight against this.
I dunno, I've been to a few ER's and you go in there looking as square as leave it to beaver, and they always assume that you are some STD infested, drug addict, sex fiend. When their first check is to not listen to anything you say and run the std panel on you, it's not really saving lives. Maybe the ER folks just get to a point where they are just desensitized and calloused, but in my experience I've seen a lot of assholes in the ER.
I have too but I've also worked with some many that are dedicated
True, but they are few and far between in my experience
I am sorry for your experiences. It shouldn't be that way.