that sports medicine is an awesome point. To really extrapolate, if a doctor treats a woman in a violent and dangerous relationship - what are their obligations to their patient? How does that match or differ from what sports medicine doctors do? and in light of the "it's what people did 100 years ago! what else were they supposed to do?!" argument, how are current practices informed by the past?
All that aside, I have an uncle who is a doctor and works in ER services and he wishes he could refuse treatment to those who can not pay for it. Mostly because he's pretty much a jerk about a free market economy - but there's that side of it as well. How does a free market economy conflict with ethical treatment of patients?
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Date: 2012-04-12 04:26 pm (UTC)All that aside, I have an uncle who is a doctor and works in ER services and he wishes he could refuse treatment to those who can not pay for it. Mostly because he's pretty much a jerk about a free market economy - but there's that side of it as well. How does a free market economy conflict with ethical treatment of patients?