Discovering Religion: Medical Ethics "How Ethical Are You?"

[MarkCharles]

"Discovering Religion is an original, documentary-style series on YouTube that explores a variety of topics within the framework of religion, science, philosophy, history and politics. The aim of this series is to expose the fallacies propagated by a literalistic view of religious doctrine through an entertaining, educational, and thought-provoking medium. Please leave your thoughts or feedback about the series or my upcoming projects found in the "In Progress" section. Thank you for visiting."

http://discoveringreligion.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b25fe_KR5U&feature=feedu


"Ancient scrolls written many thousands of years ago could never hope predict all the moral and ethical dilemmas future societies would face. The Bible cannot speak to modern-day medical ethics just as it says nothing about insider trading, sexual harassment in the work place, or the ethical obligation of lawyers to defend clients known to be guilty.

I find it truly amazing at the same the ancient Greeks were refining a code of ethics by which to conduct the practice of medicine, the Hebrews were cursing Babylon and threatening to seize Babylonian infants and violently dash them against rocks (Psalm 137). These two groups actually coexisted, and you could not hope to find a better example of two morally polarized theistic belief systems in the ancient world."


Please enjoy viewing this 14 minute video, and see how you would answer questions of modern medical ethics.

[NMMNG]

1. Important topic

But I don't have the patience for the 14 minute video and I couldn't find a transcript for it. Is there one available for it?

[MarkCharles]

2. Sorry, not that I know of so far. He's a third year medical student, philosophy graduate

and confirmed Atheist.

The video is actually 20 questions that appear on a US exam for certification of medical students as medical doctors at the end of their training and beginning of their internships. It's quite an impressive list of ethical dilemmas that modern day doctors and nurses are faced with in the practice of their profession.

I learned that I am not as correct in my ethical beliefs as I should be, as I answered two of the 20 questions wrong.

At least I didn't rely upon religious beliefs to form my ethics in my answer, I simply didn't know the laws, nor the POSSIBLE medical implications of a wrong answer.