# Medical Ethics - as Required of MD's

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-ethics-as-required-of-mds/782287>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 16, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-ethics-as-required-of-mds/782287 "2017-03-16T04:07:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-ethics-as-required-of-mds/782287/201 "2017-05-04T09:25:54Z")

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You’re better than that. For Shame!

Go spend a week discussing mortality\* and approaches thereto with sub-30 medical staff - let me know how it goes, OK?

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  - somewhere between 33-40 years, the casual “We all gotta go sometime” is replaced by a chilling realization that one’s own end is within sight. Until then, they have difficulty dealing with persons with a serious grasp of death.

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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-ethics-as-required-of-mds/782287/202 "2017-05-04T10:47:28Z")

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Hell, when my spouse was dying I had problems with a doc in his 60’s who couldn’t cope with imminent death. Most people in our society don’t deal well with it, and that includes a lot of medical personnel.

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-ethics-as-required-of-mds/782287/203 "2017-05-04T12:07:32Z")

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> [@usedtobe](#):
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> You’re better than that. For Shame! …

If that’s addressed to me I am puzzled. The point of this thread had been your contention that your PCP was guilty of actionable medical abandonment. Last word on that was your going to be setting up a time to discuss proceeding with some action against your PCP with a lawyer. That was more than 5 weeks ago.

I am not “better than” asking for updates and follow up about what a thread is on its face about.

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