Nowadays doctors can become very rich. Maybe they should not focus on profitable activities such as plastic surgery or looking after rich patients and concentrate more on patients health, no matter how rich they are?
When the society has gradually developed, people are paying more attention to their health as well as their physical appearance. However, the demands unexpectedly benefit doctors when it appears as a way for them to make money out of their patients. The doctors’ idea of putting the individual benefits over the community’s health should not be encouraged.
On the one hand, it is convinced that doctors have rights to take advantage of their career in order to meet demands of the rich for special health services. In modern life, apart from basic needs, there are likely more superior calls for beauty surgery or high quality health care. In fact, meeting the patients’ special requirements is not ethically wrong as long as the rich can afford the cost of treatments. In other words, it is a win-win situation.
On the other hand, although doctors can benefit themselves from those profitable activities, it is thought that prioritizing one self’s benefit over the community’s is morally wrong. The patients should be equally treated regardless of their social status. Presumably, it would be grievously shocking if all doctors in this society focused on making money by looking after only rich people, then how about the poor, especially children, who could not afford for health care? Having said that, I am wondering how they could teach their children about the moral principles. Furthermore, from the general perspective, this would increase more inequality in society in which people steeped with their individualism.
All in all, doctors should put their patients’ health at first; no matter they are rich or poor. It is a duty for every doctor to respect their career’s moral standards.(277 words)