Doctors playing God

[mart]

One of my aunts was a nurse. I remember overhearing conversations when she was working in the local maternity hospital. She was talking, in a coded way, about severely handicapped babies not being assisted to survive.

Mart

[Deuce Bigolo]

It happens so in effect we have hospitals full of murderers accordnig to the law

About time society faced up to these facts and legislated accordingly

These 'right to lifers' who say we have no right to choose when we go really give me the shits

A better example of Doctors Playing God would be the religious who refuse blood transfusions....quite a few cases where doctors have known and yet still gone ahead against the patients will...now thats playing god

cheers
B....OZ

[Deuce Bigolo]

I see where he may have erred

He's reading from the hypocratic oath from the 'Doctor in Charge TV Series'

cheers
B....OZ

[jj]

Doctors have always, traditionally, had this 'unspoken right,' vaguely analogous to the 'putting out of misery' thing.
It's only now that the whole thing has been taken out and looked at with the more-jaundiced eye of a post-Shipman society that all GPs seem to have come under suspicion.
A truly civilised society should recognise that quality of life, rather than its mere temporal extension, should be the governing factor.

[Officer Dibble]

To me the quality of life is far more important than simply life for life?s sake. As I understand it the baby in question is not 'viable' as an independent living entity. In this instance nature made a mistake, it got the recipe wrong. It was not meant to be. There is no worthwhile future for such a child, it will never be able to enjoy the kind of life and aspects of life we take for granted. All that lies ahead is misery and dependence.

I sometimes see people in documentaries on TV who?s lives, and quality of life, look so awful that I personally would find such an existence totally unacceptable, were I to be in their shoes. I would not want to live (exist might be a better word) under those circumstances and I would probably curse the fuckers who had not taken the necessary steps, at the appropriate moment, to spare me the horror, anguish and embarrassment of my existence.

You know, these 'Pro-Life' nutmegs you hear about are simply afraid of death. They don't want anybody to die because at that point they might be forced to confront death and look it in the face.

Officer Dibble

[Illinoisblue]

Indeed, as the late, great Bill Hicks once said about Pro-Lifers:

"if they're so pro-life, instead of bombing abortion clinics why aren't they chaining themselves to cemetery gates?"

[jj]

Woss these#### thingies mean?
An' get ORF the FARKING phone, so I can abuse yer roight proper.