Doctors in the society we live in today are under a great deal of stress to perform at a perfect and consistent level each and every day. Wether it’s a routine minor surgery or an experimental surgery, doctors have to be completely focused on the task in front of them. And that task is providing the services that the person they are operating on is in desperate need of. This is because when someone specifically a doctor graduates from medical school they swear on an oath to help and protect anyone that is in need of medical assistance. So if the case comes up where someone is not in need of medical care it is not the doctors job to help that person for no given reason. Just because an individual requests something to be done to them doesn’t mean that it should be done. So in the case of the doctor removing healthy limbs from patients upon there request is completely unnecessary. Not only does this go against the oath the doctor …show more content…
When a police officer graduates from the police academy they too take an oath to protect and serve the people and uphold the law that is good in our governed society. So if someone who had done nothing wrong, was carrying no weapons, and was no harm to society walked up to police officer and asked that police officer to shoot him should the police officer shoot him just because the person asked? Everyone would say of course not that completely goes against the rules of a well governed society. So if the police officer case is a hard no why would the doctor case be any less of a no. Many would argue that the doctor is not killing someone. And to the that the philosopher inside me says ok take the cop example again and instead of the person asking to get shot the person asks the cop to just wound him or her in lets say the leg. Would the cop still be in the wrong for hurting an innocent person? The answer is yes and it will always be