[PLUG-TALK] Re: PLUG-talk Digest, Vol 6, Issue 20

[glen e. p. ropella]

=><=><= "rj" == Russ Johnson <russj at dimstar.net> writes:

rj> As far as your last question, as long as it's legal, the doctor should 
rj> do as the patient (his customers) request. To do otherwise is malpractice.

Is this true?  I suspect it's not.  I think "malpractice" will have a 
more general definition, something to do with "the best interests of 
the patient", regardless of what the patient thinks, says, or does.

One of the reasons we have our lovely Maternal Hobbesian Federal
Interfering gub'ment in the first place is to preserve and work for
a healthy body politic, regardless (and sometimes to the detriment)
of the individuals that make up that body.  This is one reason we can
ethically sacrifice our soldiers and have them sign contracts wherein
they abandon the usual citizen's rights.

I suspect the license to practice medicine is similar.  The doctor
gives up some potentially capitalist behavior in order to work for
some abstraction we call "health".

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