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6 pages in length. Gregory X, who is twenty-five years old, unmarried, and childless, wants a vasectomy. He goes to Dr. H, a urologist in a clinic in a large city hospital, because he cannot afford the surgery elsewhere. He tells Dr. H that he decided, after several years of thought, never to be a parent. The vasectomy will now ensure that and make it necessary for any woman he loves to run the various risks associated with the available means of contraception. Dr. H has doubts about performing the surgery on a young, unmarried man. He asks Gregory X to consider the feelings of a possible future wife who will not have any say about the sterilization decision. Gregory X insists on the surgery. What, if any, ethical obligation is Dr. H under with regard to performing – or not performing the surgery? Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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a clinic in a large city hospital, because he cannot afford the surgery elsewhere. He tells Dr. H that he decided, after several years of thought, never to be
a parent. The vasectomy will now ensure that and make it necessary for any woman he loves to run the various risks associated with the available means of contraception.
Dr. H has doubts about performing the surgery on a young, unmarried man. He asks Gregory X to consider the feelings of a possible future wife who will not
have any say about the sterilization decision. Gregory X insists on the surgery. What, if any, ethical obligation is Dr. H under with regard to performing - or
not performing the surgery? "The question arises what it means to be useful when the patients attitude to his well being differs from that of the physicians?" (Liubarskien?, 1999,
p. PG). Dr. H is under no ethical obligation to perform any surgical procedure upon anyone, least of all a vasectomy for a
twenty-five-year-old unmarried and childless man. Dr. H is obviously of the mindset that Gregory is far too young to be making such a tremendous life-changing decision at such a
relatively young age and does not want to be a part of what he believes will be a decision Gregory will come to regret later on. With about five
hundred thousand men seeking vasectomies every year, it is estimated that five percent will change their minds at some point after the procedure (Anonymous, 2002). Indeed, the doctors ethical
consideration firmly resides with Gregorys best interests; however, it is at this point that critics contend Dr. H must put aside his own personal considerations and abide by the request
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