Current Events > Are Doctors required/forced to save their worst enemies if that was the case?

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Let's assume i was a Cardiologist and a person who just suffered a stroke/heart attack came into emergencies and needed an emergency procedure/surgery or whatever, but then you realize the person in question was someone who gave you a hard time during your youth days (Bully or something like that)

To add some more drama on it, lets assume that person actually physically assaulted me before once or twice.

What happens in that case? Are doctors really forced to save/help anybody because of their Oath? Im pretty sure they cant just say "I wont save this person because he was a dick with me in the past" but what exactly happens in this case? Do they transfer the patient so someone else does the job?
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yes
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chill02 posted...

yes

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there was a House episode about this

An African warlord gets brought to the hospital and the crew has to decide whether saving him is a good idea since he's a dictator

Chase decides to let him die.

Also there was an episode about whether it was worth saving a death row inmate's life
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they take an oath to do no harm. you can request to switch off that assignment if the time it takes to do so doesn't harm the patient, but if it does you have to take care of it yourself or break your hippocratic oath. look at it this way, if you think your previous experience with the patient would interfere and possibly cause harm, it's in your interest to swap out or you may risk breaking your oath.
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There's a simple answer to this - "try" your hardest, but accidentally drop a huge anvil on them mid surgery

Bok_Choi posted...

there was a House episode about this

An African warlord gets brought to the hospital and the crew has to decide whether saving him is a good idea since he's a dictator

Chase decides to let him die.

Also there was an episode about whether it was worth saving a death row inmate's life

Fantastic ****ing show

Yes
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The answer is yes, assuming it's an immediate life-threatening problem that no one else can treat at that moment.

You CAN deny most everything else, though.
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Darklit_Minuet posted...

There's a simple answer to this - "try" your hardest, but accidentally drop a huge anvil on them mid surgery

I like this guy
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Would dogtor doge have to save Cate
Very concern
Such question
Much wow
So ponder
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If there's someone else available, I imagine the hospital would actually prefer you have someone else treat them.
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No_U_L7 posted...

they take an oath to do no harm. you can request to switch off that assignment if the time it takes to do so doesn't harm the patient, but if it does you have to take care of it yourself or break your hippocratic oath. look at it this way, if you think your previous experience with the patient would interfere and possibly cause harm, it's in your interest to swap out or you may risk breaking your oath.

Taking the hippocratic oath isn't a legal requirement to become a doctor an d many don't take one.