Ethical Dilemmas During Hurricane Katrina

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After reading the article, I have a different view from the author. I feel the doctor and two nurses tried their best to treat their patients properly during Hurricane Katrina. I thought they handle the work as reasonably as possible. The distinction between right or wrong (they are guilty or not guilty) in their way of doing things need to consider many aspects. Sometimes we see that is right thing, but it is not right thing at all even wrong so seeing what they do right or wrong depends on the situation, time and place, not just the medical concept. To know if they are guilty or not, I think we need to put ourselves in their situations for seeing things in the most objective way. During that hurricane suppose we lack medical equipment, water, supporting from outside, and no …show more content…
In fact, they have a stable psychology for these situations with no major disturbance in the treatment between the patient and the medical staff for five days against the harshness of the hurricane. On ethical issues, they try theirs best to have a better therapeutic outcome for the patient. They open all the doors to lower the temperature, work from morning to night in 5 days by using a flashlight to take care patients along with the number of health care workers is limited, but with professional ethics they forget their tiredness and exhaustion so that their patients have a better result. Therefore, there is no reason for them to intentionally kill patients during their treatment way. Many people say that treatment has accidentally killed the patient but that really is true or not. There is no real test to check the danger or effectiveness of the drug in that situation that they faced during Katrina

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