Conversation Activity: Medical Ethics

Here are some polemical issues. Help us decide whether they’re ethical or not and justify it.

1. The patient has got a deadly disease. He asks the doctor what his real situation is and the doctor tells him he’s OK.
2. The patient is suffering from terrible pain due to a serious disease. He’s connected to machines to keep him alive.He asks the doctor to stop his suffering by turning off the machines.The doctor refuses to do it.
3. A man had just bought health insurance. He had a terrible accident. When he was hospitalised the hospital didn’t accept him.
4. An old lady is diagnosed with a serious illness. She decides to sell her possessions and take a long trip. When she comes back (totally broke) she finds out the diagnosis was wrong.
5. The hospital is administered by religious people. A nun catches a married doctor and a nurse in bed.
6. A doctor is caught stealing drugs at the hospital pharmacy because he’s addicted.