written by palmdoc
Published in Malaysian Medical Resources
July 17, 2008
I came across this news report:
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was stripped naked, had his private parts examined and some other body parts measured during a medical check-up at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital last night.
Heck, I don’t think even rape suspects are “stripped naked??? and their “body parts measured???. Medical examination or an attempt at humiliation?
Related MMR post:
Doing what is right means you sometimes don’t blindly “follow the leader???
http://medicine.com.my/wp/?p=3590
July 1, 2008
A lot has been happening in this nation of ours recently. Take as an example, the policemen accused of killing an unfortunate Mongolian girl. There are those who find it very hard to believe that they did what they allegedly did on instruction from some “political analyst???. What were if it were true that the heinous crime was indeed on instruction from someone higher up as alleged by someone’s statutory declaration?
Well this post is not about what is true or what not is true, but it is about what should one do if instructed to do something which is wrong – morally, ethically and even legally wrong. This applies to all of us – policemen, accountants, lawyers, doctors, nurses.
Indeed, it can be very hard sometimes being a minion.
So what do you do if your boss or superior or someone in “power??? asks you to do something you know is wrong or unethical?
Those of you who work in ERs may have been pressured by “politicians??? not to proceed with post-mortems in cases which clearly belong to the Coroner. You may even have had pressure from “people in power??? to “omit things??? from medical reports.
I can imagine the pressure must have been very high on those doctors involved in the medical examination and medical reports of a very high profile political case.
You can only report the truth and nothing but the truth. Yet, if a doctor were to be coerced by those in authority to come up with a medical report which is not the truth can the doctor be disciplined by the MMC? The allegations of a doctor making “false and incredible conclusions??? as per paragraph 10 of the alleged police report is indeed disturbing.
I think there can only be one answer to the “what should you do???? question. You do what is right. Short of that you have to live with your conscience the rest of your life.