It has been recently found that a doctor from Brazil
allegedly killed seven people she was treating in order to clear out the hospital
beds for new patients; her name is Virginia Helena Soares de Souza. According to
the article on CNN she provided these patients with “lethal doses” of
anesthetics, sedatives and painkillers, according to authorities. She was also
accused of purposely altering their oxygen levels to suffocate the patients in
order to clear the “clutter in the ICU at the hospital. While clearing the “clutter”
in her ICU she was illegally pulling the plug of seven people that the families
and guardians had not approved, so she did it against their wishes, causing her
arrest this past February.
When I first
read this article I was shocked, the fact that someone actually believes that
they have the right to make the decision to end someone’s life without the
families consent is beyond me. It bothers me that the doctor played God, deciding
whether or not someone should live or die in order to clear out her ICU? I can
understand that there are probably more patients that could use the beds and
need the use of hospitals but does that make what she did right? I don’t believe
so, I believe that the people who were already there deserve the care that the
other patients who would have later got the care in the hospital because of
their death. This makes me question what goes through a doctor’s head while taking
care of patients. Do they want to take care of me or are they just doing it for
the money? Will they actually try their hardest to make sure that I will get
better? Isn’t it really sad also that this makes me question all doctors
because of one doctor’s huge mistake? I am not sure what to think other than
that the doctor who illegally pulled the plug does not deserve to be a doctor
anymore, especially if she is going to play God. (338)
