patient’s pleas, they would be going against the foundation of their practice and against the core character of themselves and who they vowed to be in that setting.
The doctors on Dax’s case saw what they were doing as necessary actions to maintain their character and do good for their patient. This ideology closely aligns with that of virtue ethics. According to Devetterre, “Clarifying what constitutes a truly good human life as well as the choices and habits that can achieve it and the social and political structures that can support it brings us to the subject matter of an ethics of the good- virtue ethics” (Deverttee, 2016, p. 15). This explains that virtue ethics is about developing virtuous character traits and letting them guide someone
