Ethical Issues In Grey's Anatomy

I watched Grey’s Anatomy Season 1 Episode 9, titled Who’s Zoomin Who. This episode starts off in a way that does relate to any ethical issue. George has just slept with a new girl and finds out that he has syphilis. The entire wing of the hospital experiences a syphilis outbreak leading the staff needing to be tested for the STD. Grey’s Anatomy has many storylines and another in this episode deals with the Chief of Surgery, Dr. Webber. He finds out that he has a tumor behind his eye, and he recruits Dr. Shepard to keep this secret and do the surgery to remove the tumor. Dr. Burke is also dealing with a friend who has an ovary that he needs to have removed. The part of the episode that has an ethical issue comes about when Cristina and Izzie have a patient suddenly die in their care. The patient is an older man who they find to have a lot of fluid in his gut, which could eventually threaten his life. When they are removing the fluid, the patient dies on

I believe the most important is so that procedures are not done that the patient does not want to have. If there was nothing like informed consent, Doctors would be free to do whatever treatment they wanted to on their patients. This could possibly lead to procedures that are not in the best interest of patient. Although doctors have an obligation to treat patients in the best way possible, we have seen throughout this class how doctors are not different than the rest of us and can get selfish. This has led to procedures and experiments that were harmful to the patients. Without Informed Consent it is possible for doctors to manipulate patients into agreeing to things that they do not understand. When informed consent is enforced, it ensures that all doctors act in the best interests of their patients and not themselves. It also makes sure that patients are not agreeing to procedures and/or treatments that they do not completely