Can I Be Your Doctor If....?

Last week, ClinkShrink wrote an article about a heinous criminal who committed suicide while in prison.  She titled her post: Your Patient Died. Who Cares? Such a post begs the question of whether all people deserve equal medical care, equal physician devotion, and equal medical resources.  I think we all have our own beliefs about such things.  Some of us can minister to the physical and mental disorders of those who've done awful things, some of us can not.  I guess you could go further and say what's an awful thing?  Can you treat Hitler?  His bodyguard died a few days ago, having made it to the ripe old age of 96.  Can you treat someone who only killed 5 people, and not 13 million?  Can you treat someone who drove drunk and killed a single young child?  Can you treat someone who beats their children?  Who cheats on their wife?  Who causes their own illnesses by drinking, drugging, and eating pizza (~I ate pizza and ice cream at the beach today, it was sooo good, but I do know this is not good for me).  Who has religious beliefs that your own religion deems unacceptable?  And if your father ends up in jail because he drove while intoxicated, committed some sort of financial fraud, or there was a weird case of identity confusion that took a little while to sort out, would you want him getting reasonable medical care during his stay in jail? Does everyone deserve the exact same medical care?  Is is wrong...
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