Do Max Harm: The Grave Ethics Problem In Healthcare

The author's CW is for SV.

Only about 1/3^rd of the article is about COVID, but this comm seemed more appropriate than a general one like /c/chapotraphouse.

[R]esearchers interviewed physicians who administer euthanising drugs in Canada to glean insights about their state of mind and reaction to what is assumed to be traumatising work.

The results were disturbing.

Some described feeling ‘an adrenaline rush’ at the moment of death, others said that watching someone die was ‘liberating.’ Some said they laugh together when discussing how to force euthanasia on reluctant patients and their families. One person said administering the lethal drugs causes for them ‘an urgent and pressing need for sex.’