Response to Cameron's Post: "Surgeon Defends Amputations"

My reaction to Cameron’s post is much the same as her own. I agree, the desire of a surgeon to want to help his patients and make them as healthy as possible as quickly as possible. When a surgeon performs an operation, it is under the impression that they are helping the patient. The fact that sometimes, maybe in the particular case mentioned in the BBC news article, people are often going under a certain feeling or desire that could soon vanish, doctors must use their head before feeling like they need to help a certain patients. Patients often want things done to themselves at a specific moment that a day, month, or even year later they may find themselves regretting. Doctors and surgeons do not want to be the one person they place the blame on. Therefore, doctor’s, particularly the one mentioned in the article, should use their head – as Cameron put it – not their heart.