02-08-2009, 01:00 PM
kj wrote:
I don't find that funny at all. The hospital definitely should have let the lady visit. One thing though, is that I have been to hospitals to visit clients (some who were dying), and when they asked if I was family I said yes. At least after the first time I was denied visitation. kj.
I have yet to read the story but feel a need to comment on this application of "situational ethics" by someone who espouses a different sort of ethic for others. If you were a surgeon and faced with either hospital or legal prerequisites that forbade your participating in an operation which might actually save a patient, would you circumvent those procedures and go forward with what you know in you heart is right, or would you stand down and let the patient take his/her chances?