Hawkeye, Honeycutt & Heinz

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In addition, they hear that he plans to ignore the recent commands of his superiors and advance upon enemy troops in the area. The officer reveals that he plans to draw fire from the enemy and then use this fire as an excuse to engage in battle. If questioned about the ensuing battle, he will merely claim that his troops were acting in self-defense. Furthermore, Hawkeye and BJ learn that this officer has quite a bad track record when it comes to casualties; he seems to be quite cavalier when it comes to putting his troops in harm's way. In order to stop this reckless officer, Hawkeye hatches a plan: He will make the officer think he has appendicitis. By performing unnecessary surgery on the officer, Hawkeye will be able to prevent him from carrying out his plans, and the officer will merely be losing one unnecessary organ. As a result, dozens of lives will be saved. BJ, however, rejects Hawkeye's plan. He argues that such an action would violate the Hippocratic Oath that all doctors take. The oath states that, first and foremost, one must never do harm to any patient, and unnecessary surgery is certainly some form of harm. BJ argues that, no matter what good consequences might follow from this surgery, an oath of this sort cannot be broken.</div> <div>  </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="287"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="592" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="287" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="602" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="596"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="596" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="632" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#66FF00 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 81 WIDTH="352"><bR> <div> Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg invented a scenario known as the <I><B>“Heinz Dilemma.”</B></I> The dilemma is roughly as follows:</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="273"><bR> <div> <I>ICE</I>, p. 85</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Notes</U></B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 484 WIDTH="352"><div> <IMG SRC="34c3bb70.jpg" border=0 width="315" height="183" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $ 1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug-for his wife. Should the husband have done that? Why or why not?</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="273"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="484" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="273" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>