what do you think about doctors who save lives everyday? aren't they interfering with life and playing god as well?
2006-08-18 09:58:25 · 8 answers · asked by tandypants 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
big difference
-seeking to save
-seeking to terminate
Hippocratic Oath -- Classical Version
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.
I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
If I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
2006-08-18 10:06:56 · answer #1 · answered by pops 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how hard they are fighting to save the life. In a case like that woman in Florida who was on Life support for what like a decade because her family wouldn't let go and she was in a Persistant Vegative State YES they are playing God. If it is a case where they are trying to keep someone from dying from a paper cut(ok not really that but just giving the extreme on the other end) or prevent someone from getting tetnus or such NO they aren't. People make mistakes in their life and medical science is a little like the eraser so to speak. If it is a minor mishap it should be cured. If we have been trying to cure someone in a coma for YEARS then it is time to accept the end. It is time to keep people from their PAIN. Just because you have a terminal illness doesn't mean you are in pain and should be put to death. Oh I'm sorry you "choose" to die. Yeah and how long until we "choose" for you to die? That is the biggest fear in allowing this. Anyway back to the point Say you have a terminal cancer. You are in NO PAIN. You could get assissted suicide(Doctor commits murder but that is another issue) because of that. The day AFTER your OD we have a medical breakthrough in that form of cancer and we could have kept you in a permant remission. You weren't in pain and now you would be essentially cured. Instead you are dead.
2006-08-18 17:12:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they are not. God gave them this knowledge to be used to help mankind. If you help someone commit suicide, you have done the killing, as far as God is concerned. The person's blood is on your head. Only God can give life, and only He can take it.
2006-08-18 17:10:41 · answer #3 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the doctor's don't hurry up and find a way to stop all my lower severe back pain, I will commit suicide myself.
2006-08-18 17:05:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because if God wants them to die then they will die. (Oh and I'm not necessarily against assisted suicide just to let you know :) ) Good question though!
2006-08-18 17:04:51 · answer #5 · answered by BeC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they are just helping keep a life going. They are not creating a life.
2006-08-18 17:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by actresst22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By your logic doctors, murderers, and Kervorkian all fall in the same category. Seems too broad for me.
2006-08-18 17:05:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
hahahahaha, you're funny
this is a very good question taking in consideration your brain size
2006-08-18 17:08:18 · answer #8 · answered by niceman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋