Hastings Cent Rep
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Hastings Cent Rep
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Most accounts of why physicians have a duty to treat patients during a pandemic look to the special ethical standards of the medical profession. An adequate account must be deeper and broader: it must set the professional duty alongside other individual commitments and broader social values.
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Accepted medical practice already violates the dead donor rule. Explicitly jettisoning the rule -- allowing vital organs to be extracted, under certain conditions, from living patients -- is a radical change only at the conceptual level. But it would expand the pools of eligible organ donors.