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    Carrie is a doctor faced with a moral dilemma where deadly fumes are rising through the hospital's ventilation system. She must decide whether to divert the fumes away from a room containing four patients to a room with one patient, knowing it would cause the single patient's death. The document suggests Carrie first try to transfer one of the patients or combine the patients in the same room to save all lives without compromising her ethics. The second scenario describes a person whose partner is dying from a rare disease that has a cure sold by a druggist at 10 times production cost. Though the person offers half payment up front, the druggist refuses. The document says the person should not consider stealing or killing to obtain the

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    Carrie is a doctor faced with a moral dilemma where deadly fumes are rising through the hospital's ventilation system. She must decide whether to divert the fumes away from a room containing four patients to a room with one patient, knowing it would cause the single patient's death. The document suggests Carrie first try to transfer one of the patients or combine the patients in the same room to save all lives without compromising her ethics. The second scenario describes a person whose partner is dying from a rare disease that has a cure sold by a druggist at 10 times production cost. Though the person offers half payment up front, the druggist refuses. The document says the person should not consider stealing or killing to obtain the

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    Moral Dilemmas in Health Care Service

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    Carrie is a doctor faced with a moral dilemma where deadly fumes are rising through the hospital's ventilation system. She must decide whether to divert the fumes away from a room containing four patients to a room with one patient, knowing it would cause the single patient's death. The document suggests Carrie first try to transfer one of the patients or combine the patients in the same room to save all lives without compromising her ethics. The second scenario describes a person whose partner is dying from a rare disease that has a cure sold by a druggist at 10 times production cost. Though the person offers half payment up front, the druggist refuses. The document says the person should not consider stealing or killing to obtain the

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    Moral Dilemmas in Health Care Service

    Scenario:
    Carrie is a doctor working in a hospital. Due to an accident in the building next
    door, there are deadly fumes rising up through the hospital’s ventilation system.
    In a certain room of the hospital are four of her patients. In another room there is
    one of her patients. If she does nothing the fumes will rise up into the room
    containing the four patients and cause their deaths. The only way to avoid the
    deaths of these patients is to hit the switch that will cause the fumes to bypass
    the room containing the four patients. As a result of doing this, the fumes will
    enter the room containing the single patient (against her will). If she does this, the
    woman will die, but the other four patients will live.
    Should Carrie hit the switch in order to save four patients? (Explain)
    Yes, Carrie should hit the switch to save the four patients. But before
    that, she can get help by transferring one of her patients in an another room or
    together in the room of her four patients as quickly as possible. After that,
    report it to the people who knows how to repair the ventilation. By that, no one
    will die and she will save all of her patients without breaking any of the ethical
    standard for being a doctor.

    2. Moral Dilemmas in Health Care Service


    Scenario:
    Your partner is dying from a rare disease. Luckily a cure has recently been
    invented; by one druggist who lives fairly close to you. This druggist is selling
    the cure for ten times the amount it cost him to make it. You try to raise the
    money, but even borrowing from friends and taking a loan from the bank, you can
    only raise half the amount. You go to the druggist and offer to pay him half now,
    and half later, but he refuses, saying that he invented the cure and is determined
    to make money out of it. You beg him to sell it cheaper as your partner will die
    before you can raise the full amount, but he still refuses.
    You believe you could break into his store one night after he has gone
    home and still the cure. This would definitely save your partner, although you
    might be arrested for the crime.
    What would you do? What if you could only steal the cure by killing the
    druggist? Explain.

    ANSWER:
    First, I will talk to my partner about the situation and explain it to him what will be
    the risks if I steal the cure. Even if it will hurt me so much, I will not risk stealing the cure
    to the druggist because of the possibility of killing him. I know that my partner will
    understand my decision about that, and even if it pains me, if there will be no other
    options in having a cure, I will let my partner go.And also, I will spend the last days or
    time together with my partner. I cannot live in this world knowing that I will have to kill
    someone just to be together with my partner. We will just live a miserable and guilty life.
    After that, I will report the druggist to the authority because of overpricing a cure. It is
    wrong to treat a dying patient like that just to have lots of money. It is like he is the one
    who killed my partner because he couldn’t give the cure even if I talked to him in a nice
    way and offered him anything I can to atleast lengthen my partner’s life.

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