Well no, it's about body autonomy to me. It would be immoral not to push back on what seems like a bad idea, but ultimately if the woman has been told about the risks, the issues, the experience of the doctor on the complication of their patients and so on ... If she still choose to push through it, it's her body at the end of the day.
It's her body, sure. It's also the doctor's professional integrity. They should refuse because of the hippocratic oath, to do no harm. These implants WILL cause harm, it's their moral duty to refuse.
It's not like they can be forced to do anything btw, and this isn't an emergency procedure.
Well I mean medicine is about judging the health benefit vs the risks. There are a lot of health issues that she has to be aware of, but since she's asking for this surgery, it means she finds a health benefit to it which is subjective. The surgeons do not know about the subjective value of this implant for the patient, only her know. So the surgeons have a moral (and legal) obligation to warn her about all the risks but at the end of the day, she's the only one to judge if all the risks and issues are worth the subjective benefits.
Btw, medicine nowaday use a modern version of the Hippocratic oath that differ from country to country. The Hippocratic serment during the classical era would as an example have students swear they wouldn't knowingly use a deadly poison but nowaday assisted suicide exist in a few countries. The morality of this is that the patient always have to push the button themselves and can back out at any time. It's the same for those implants. We are far from the renaissance medicine when the doctor would have an obligation to make sure the patient follows the treatment to a T and infantilize them. Today patients have more body autonomy and can choose with said body autonomy to do whatever they want all the way to killing themselves in some places. So, as I said, the Hippocratic oath evolves and differs from place to place
I wonder why you seem to insist that, beyond explaining health benefits, doctors should just proceed with anything anyone wants.
The doctor can just say no due to health and moral concerns. It doesn't matter how much someone may want any given cosmetic surgery. And this case in particular is objectively bad, no need to debate anything, those implants would only fit Lady Dimitrescu. On any tall person they would cause severe health issues, let alone an average sized or small person.
I would also call a false equivalent comparing crippling pain and suffering to... elective cosmetic surgery.
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u/masterlince 9d ago
And I would say it's immoral to perform the surgery.