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    A doctor must choose whether to administer a life-saving medicine to a sixth patient or withhold it so the patient's organs can be harvested to save five others. The document argues the doctor should save the sixth patient's life with the medicine, as every person has a right to live, even if it only delays death, and the patient's organs could still help others if death occurs later. The duty of a doctor is to save lives, not leave a patient to die for the sake of others.

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    A doctor must choose whether to administer a life-saving medicine to a sixth patient or withhold it so the patient's organs can be harvested to save five others. The document argues the doctor should save the sixth patient's life with the medicine, as every person has a right to live, even if it only delays death, and the patient's organs could still help others if death occurs later. The duty of a doctor is to save lives, not leave a patient to die for the sake of others.

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    Ethics Quiz - Baldeo 2D

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    Andie Baldeo
    A doctor must choose whether to administer a life-saving medicine to a sixth patient or withhold it so the patient's organs can be harvested to save five others. The document argues the doctor should save the sixth patient's life with the medicine, as every person has a right to live, even if it only delays death, and the patient's organs could still help others if death occurs later. The duty of a doctor is to save lives, not leave a patient to die for the sake of others.

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    Andrea Rei G.

    Baldeo BSPH 2D

    The given scenario is about a skilled doctor that is needed to make a very vital
    decision for the sake of the patients. If I were to be the doctor, I'll choose letter B, which
    says, save the patient even though the other patients won’t get organs. As a doctor i
    would save the patient.It is my duty as a doctor to save lives. Having the scenario that I
    have a medicine to save the 6th,I will administer it to him/her for the reason that
    everyone has a right to live. Moreover, it would be wrong to leave him to die to save the
    others. The medicine will not completely heal the 6th patient instead just delay the
    death. And if his/her death happens, that's the time where I’ll give his/her organs to the
    other patients. Besides his/her death will go towards the other 5 patients' great goods.
    Hence, in reality as a doctor you will ask for patient 6th options, if there is any and
    technically speaking, there will be a lot of tests to overcome issues of organ
    compatibility.

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