[ SECRET POST #3119 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3119 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's so weird how a show I like so much has so many plot tumors. Vogler? Hate it. Stupid Cameron and Cameron House and Cameron Chase? Bad. Baby drama. Tritter? Ugh. More baby drama??? Foreman and Thirteen??? House and Cuddy? Aaaaaaaah

[philstar22]

I didn't mind Volger or Tritter or the baby drama. Anything involving Cameron was stupid because I hated her, and I wasn't a fan of Foreman/Thirteen. I was into House/Cuddy until the show started to actually go there in all the wrong ways. By that point I'd stopped watching.

[(Anonymous)]

One thing I hated about Cameron is that she risked their patient's lives more than House did because she wanted to be morally right all of the time. Everyone else seemed to be able to put their heads down and make the hard choices.

[diet_poison]

How is it ever morally right to risk someone's life unnecessarily? I've never seen the show so I'm curious. What was the justification? What could be more of a moral imperative than saving human lives?

[(Anonymous)]

For example, there was an episode where a woman's liver was completely dead and she needed a liver transplant to live. Her girlfriend was a match for donation and offered a piece of her liver. The team learned that the dying girl was planning to break up with her girlfriend, and Cameron was hell-bent on telling the girlfriend, aware of the fact that if the girl didn't get a transplant, she'd die.

[meadowphoenix]

Yeah, that kinda decision is why I couldn't be a doctor, cause that's super shitty to risk someone's life and then break up with them.

[elf]

FWIW, in the story, the girlfriend offered the liver *knowing* that there was a breakup coming soon, and... "if I give her my liver, I know she can't break up with me." So, shady decisions all around.

[diet_poison]

wow, seriously???

that's...awful.

(It does make the doc's choice easier though, actually, to me)

[diet_poison]

man. that's rough.

I can see where that's hard actually because consensual organ donation is a very big deal.

Thanks for answering my question!

[elialshadowpine]

If the girlfriend offered it willingly, then it's not the medical practitioner's place to decide whether they should share the information. Unless you are working in mental health, your focus is on the patient's health, not possible emotional consequences, especially if someone is going to die if they do not receive the transplant ASAP (the lists are long and hellish to get through; I have a friend who is about two points short of being able to go on the transplant list, she has cirrhosis and alpha-1 disorder, and the longer they put it off, the more complications she develops and the lower her survival chances become, but since she's two points off, she can't be listed until her liver gets worse despite the complications, and the fact that if she does get worse, it is possible she may not survive the transplant, and there's usually a multi-year wait once you're on the transplant list, unless you get really, really lucky). Yes, it will royally suck for her emotionally if the girlfriend breaks up with her, but she'll be alive. That should be the doctor's top priority, and what Cameron did is I believe actionable under medical law; certainly, it would be reason for administrative action, at the very least. I don't remember the episode well enough to say whether that was included or not.

(Mom works in medical. Psych, but she did the nurse version of residency in military ER. While the tough decisions weren't up to her as a nurse, she saw enough of the consequences that she is very, very hardcore in her stances on the importance of medical professionalism and priority.)

[diet_poison]

I do agree. But it sucks because there might be serious consequences afterward, the survivor will probably have horrible guilt, the girlfriend will have horrible pain, and a messy lawsuit is not outside the realm of possibility. So even though I agree it's the right thing to do, it's a messy situation.