Doctor: Divine or Devil ?
January 8, 2011 in Living Thought
Assalamualaikum,
I have just watched “Medium” which title is “Pain Killer“. In this serial, it is about a doctor who decides which patient should be kept to be taken care of, or which patient should be given death sentence.
Dr. Thomas Stanler, the doctor in this movie, is a doctor who handles all the patients who get cancer. He is a good doctor indeed. He saved a lot of lifes which of course with HIS permission. (But this is a Hollywood movie, no such thing about HIS permission :p).
But anyway, he seems like to judge the patient’s life or time to death by himself. So, when he knew that there is no longer hope for the patient to live then he will inject the “special” liquid to them without anyone permission. I mean with no hope here such as cancer with stage 4, no life insurance, not so rich person, can not pay the bill, etc. But actually, the patients themselves still have hope to live.
We all know that being doctor is a “gift”. They can help healing their disease or illness. But it does not mean that they have the right to decide which patients can continue to live and which patients should just die. The doctor may argue that this decision is for the patient’s own good. They may argue that it will end the patient’s pain from disease and help them not throwing a huge fortune just for trying to heal them and for the uncertain hope. How do they know? How do they know that it will help the patient? How do they know that it will end their pain? How do they know that there is no such hope?
The reasons might not because of money like the other many other practices of them but it still cost life that no one can ever buy it from anyone and anywhere. Are they divine or devil?
Wassalamualaikum