Nice to see O'Bama working on getting rid of midnight Bush rules

[--Pete]

Hi,

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?

Why not? It really isn't medically relevant since getting that heart isn't realistic (except, maybe, in an episode of Law & Order). But, OTOH, you would need to inform he patient that he needed a heart transplant, and you would need to discuss issues like type matching and rejection.

Now, offering to kill that relative to get your patient a heart is probably Not A Good Thing. :whistling:

--Pete