Emergency Medical Technician Argument Analysis

When a patient goes into a hospital, they expect the doctors to do an objective and professional job. From the moment, you begin working in the medical field, whether it is as a First Responder, an Emergency Medical Technician, or a Transplant Surgeon, you learn to not discriminate a patient for their gender, religion, ethnicity or the way they choose to live their life. As a doctor, I cannot break the bond I have built with my patients. If I do not do the job expected of me, and I set my needs and wants before the well-being of my patients, I could lose my job, my license, and the ability to save other lives. In addition, I would be neglecting the care of someone’s daughter, mother, sister, or friend. I could not live with a clean conscience if for my misconduct something happens to this woman. Some would disagree with my decision by arguing that I am insensitive or selfish, but unlike Antigone, I believe in both God’s and man’s law. I …show more content…
Doctors are expected to give care to all their patients without judging their actions or private life. Similar to Antigone, I have been presented with a moral dilemma in which the options include saving the life of my best friend’s thirteen-year-old son, or saving the life of a woman that developed cirrhosis of the liver due to her abuse of alcohol and drugs. I have chosen to not alter the information that would place my friend’s son at the top of the transplant list, due to the responsibility and the oath I took, to care for every one of my patients. It would be dishonoring to only think of my friend and how the situation affects me personally, and not consider the woman’s family and how the sickness of their loved one affects them. Due to my selfishness, I would be punished by losing the ability to save more lives, and do what I