I think it’s safe to say that not ONE patient in any hospital goes there wanting to die. One goes to a hospital to recover and/or stave off death.
ASSUMING people want to die rather than suffer is what happened here. Pou assumed how much suffering was too much- and not for every patient, just these.
Beware bestowing this power on doctors. How many people are in long term care facilities, suffering despite all that medicine can do for them? How many suffer in burn units, dialysis, cancer treatments?
A doctors job is to ‘do no harm’. It is to ease suffering, not hasten death. There is a huge difference between having to watch someone struggle for breath when you can’t give them oxygen, and putting a pillow over their face and holding it down until they are dead.
EVERYONE was suffering there after Katrina, and I assume every doctor was trying to ease the suffering. Why then does this ONE doctor only have patients who die from her compassion?
Good point, all.