Ethic??

Ethic is a set of moral principles and we do believe that ethic is an important components in the practice of medical professions. What ever we did must be good for patient without getting or wish to obtain advantages in return. There is no 100% rights or wrongs when we talk about ethic but we do hope that we can do good with the guide of ethic.

When i was in first year of medical school. I was given an topic regarding EUTHANASIA(painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in an irrecersible coma). Most of the country doesn't accept or pass the law for euthanasia as we think that we shouldn't have terminates someone's life. I also agrees with it as I think we as human should try to save lifes instead of terminating lifes. But, sometimes you will feel sad when you see someone suffering from a incurable disease and this is even more when the patient is someone you cares and loves. We do hope for the best for the patients and thanks to the law that doesn't pass the euthanaisa law as I believe a lot of doctors will ended up emotionally unstable if they were asked to terminate someone's life.

Sometimes, I feel sad when I see someone suffering and yet i can do nothing. Remember when I just started clinical year where we were exposed to patients instead of basic sciences, we were taught with a lot of physical examination teachniques. At that point of time, I become afraid of patient. Patients having abdominal pain but we still have to press on the painful abdomen. Isn't it seems to be a bit cruel? Then i started to avoid examining properly until when i realize that what I did is even more cruel if I missed the diagnosis.

A lot of my friends or relatives said: " Wah.. how come you guys are so darring and never scared of massive bloods, opening up peoples abdomen, seeing dead bodies..." Some people even said: "don't you have feelings?" I think most of us do have feelings and these profession does require us to fight together with patient who are standing in the border between life and death. And this even make us cannot be emotional and must always remain rational. That's why we are not encourage to treat our own relatives.

A Professor told me that sometimes we do wonders whether what we did is really good and beneficial for patient. For me, who are the ones that suppose to judge us regarding ethics at the end of the day? Who is the one that will determine whether we are doing the right things or not? But I do belive that we need to always remind ourselves that we hope that we are doing the best for the patients...