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March 12, 2009
Bad doctor, bad prosecutor or bad laws?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics on the collision between ethics, medical practice and the law in Bad doctor, bad prosecutor or bad laws?
On March 2 police took a doctor into custody at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in front of her colleauges, suspected of killing an infant. Much criticism has been aimed at the prosecutor for the heavy-handed use of the police and putting the doctor into arrest, especially since the events occured several months ago and it is very unlikely there is any danger of tampering with evidence. But it is more troubling that the doctors involved (at least given currently available information) were acting according to standard medical praxis. Are a sizeable fraction of the Swedish medical profession guilty of manslaughter?
Posted by Waldemar at March 12, 2009 01:00 AM