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wdm1219inpenna View Profile Posted: 1/29/2021 12:29:10 AM	Mr. & Mrs. Who? Dilemma This episode featured Corporal Shaw who went from phase 2 to phase 3 of having hemorrhagic fever. The doctors agreed, with Potter's blessing to give Shaw an IV with less than 1% saline, going against command's orders of not giving any at all. Shaw recovered from this fever happily. Now the dilemma. Since the doctors discovered this cure, what would they do about it? If they shared it with others, they could end up in "Dutch" with the army. If they don't tell anyone about this cure, they are going against their oaths as healers. What do you think they should have done and why?
FinestKindinTN Email: ryvan@aol.com View Profile Posted: 2/6/2021 5:14:55 PM	He lived! The fact he was cured makes it a lot easier to share. I know what they should have done - shared it with command and with others. I really don't see them not sharing. Part of being any professional is the moral and, in many instances, legal obligation to sometimes go against management or existing orthodoxy. Outside of Frank, I can't see any of the 4077 doctors doing anything except share their findings.
phantomeagle View Profile Posted: 2/10/2021 3:12:41 AM	Probably no real trouble. wdm1219inpenna wrote: This episode featured Corporal Shaw who went from phase 2 to phase 3 of having hemorrhagic fever. The doctors agreed, with Potter's blessing to give Shaw an IV with less than 1% saline, going against command's orders of not giving any at all. Shaw recovered from this fever happily. Now the dilemma. Since the doctors discovered this cure, what would they do about it? If they shared it with others, they could end up in "Dutch" with the army. If they don't tell anyone about this cure, they are going against their oaths as healers. What do you think they should have done and why? I'm sure, given the results, that that order was rescinded after Potter showed the results of using very small amounts of Saline. The Orders weren't based upon Empirical evidence, but on theories due to the what they could see without the results. That's how medicine often works. It's how all science works. You change rules all the time after the evidence proves that the original regulations were in error.
Ruptured Brook Email: diderooy@gmail.com View Profile Posted: 2/12/2021 2:47:04 PM	If they didn't share it with I Corps or whomever (and I think there's a chance that they don't immediately), they at least call around to the other MASHes and let them know what they did. Surely the other hospitals are also experiencing kids with that? At the latest, they wait until they can compile results with the other units to present together. But I'm guessing they do report it and the higher ups send a memo out to everyone about potential new treatment option, send a specialist for consults in a few cases, etc.
wdm1219inpenna View Profile Posted: 2/19/2021 7:01:22 PM	Awesome replies! Also I believe the doctors were doctors before becoming army officers, therefore, they would go by the Hippocratic Oath first and foremost. If this disease was happening in civilian life and they read that medical journal report about using very little saline, they would have tried it then too.
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