03-02-2009, 03:46 AM
Quote:As far as i'm concerned the second you take the Hippocratic Oath you are under obligation to inform your patients of treatments that can better their health and to point them to where they can obtain such treatments if the patient so chooses. To obfuscate or ignore a treatment because you find it morally objectionable starts down a quick and dirty road of ethical irresponsability when it comes to patient health care.
The issue of morality in any treatment should be solely under the discretion of the patient to decide what they choose to do with their health.
So for example, if I had a patient in desperate need of a heart transplant, I am obligated by the Hippocratic Oath to inform him that one of his family members' hearts might do the trick?