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treatment should be further assessed. Due to shock and pain a patient may have a lapse in judgement as to what they truly want for care. One morally relevant detail, when it comes to Dax’s case, it was about ten months of begging to be allowed to die as he was forced to undergo excruciatingly painful and invasive procedures. During this time the doctors should have disregarded their want to be a ethically virtuous character, and instead advocated what is wanted for the patient. If the doctors would have followed deontological ethics and listened to Dax, he would not have had to live forcibly blind and disabled. This wrongdoing by the doctor’s made Dax not able to live the quality in life in which he desired. The majority of the wrongdoing that

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