Comments on: This Guy Must have Been the Worst Father to Deserve this.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:11:24 +0000

New blog

By: CHenry

CHenry — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:19:16 +0000

#7 has it. There isn’t a logical explanation. (Why do you pretend there has to be?) The son had lost all objectivity that in treating a patient one should have. He was treating a family member, something I was clearly warned not to do when I was in medical school, for that very reason. With your family, you can’t always count on the quality of objective thinking and judgment you would otherwise be able to bring to a physician-patient relationship. Psychologically, a stronger and possibly conflicting relationship already exists with family members.

By: sarahD

sarahD — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:13:29 +0000

perhaps the guy had blinders on when it came to his family and he was in total denial?

By: eyeroll

eyeroll — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:16:34 +0000

How’s it any different from all the people who won’t let go of their decaying relatives in the ICU? Just because it was at home? If anything I think it’s less awful; he was sacrificing his personal time, life and money to keeping his father alive. Which is far better than the all-too-frequent “I can’t deal with this now- you keep him alive with all possible measures and I’ll be back in a few days”. Granted, neither is ideal but I don’t see this being any worse.

By: TK

TK — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:53:08 +0000

Yes, I thought that was possible too. I just don’t know how he watched him suffer all that time and was still able to prolong it.

By: Nick__C

Nick__C — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:34:26 +0000

Maybe he was trying to be more scientist and less doctor. In other words, he treated his dad like his personal science project, just to see what he could do.

So instead of being immoral he was being amoral?

I think it’s more likely he just couldn’t let go, however.

By: EE

EE — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:47:34 +0000

Wow.

By: EEJ

EEJ — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:18:40 +0000

Maybe he just couldnt deal with the fact that he is a doctor, and still couldnt “heal” his father’s problems.

It’s too bad when emotions gain control, instead of our minds. Bad things generally happen, even if for (mostly) honorable reasons.

By: drsam

drsam — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:48:14 +0000

Wow, what a sad story.

Appears to definately transgress some moral if not ethical boundaries.