Situation: A five-year-old child has been in a terrible car accident. To give her a chance to live, the girl’s physician must

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1. The discussion is between two doctors and two persons related to the patient.

   Doctor 1: This is an emergency and we need to make a decision quickly.

   Relative 1: What kind of decision are you talking about?

   Doctor 1: Whether to give the child a blood transfusion or not.

   Relative 1: The child’s parents have already decided not to go ahead with the transfusion.

   Doctor 2: But there is no other way out.  

   Relative 1: The parents don’t have a way out either.  

   Doctor 2: I don’t feel so. R(e)ligion is unnecessarily complicating matters.  We urgently need to discuss this, or the child will lose her life.

   Relative 2: You are doctors. You have studied so much and have so much experience. I am sure you can find another way out.

   Doctor 1: This is not a question of experience. The solution is right there in front of us, but you are tying our hands.

   Relative 2: No (o)ne is tying your hands. R(e)ligion has to be followed.

   Doctor, do you not foll(o)w your r(e)ligion?

   Doctor 1: I do, but mine doesn’t forbid me from saving someone’s life.

   Relative 2: That is not the issue here. The issue is finding an alternative.

   Doctor 2: I disagree. The real issue is not wanting to take the treatment that is tried and tested in such circumstances and looking for the unknown.

   Doctor 1: I agree. And we are losing time even while we speak.

   Doctor 2: Nothing is greater than saving a life, not even r(e)ligion. If we doctors started treating patients on the basis of r(e)ligion, imagine what would happen.

   Relative 1: You cannot possibly do that. It is against the law and your ethics. The human body is the same, no matter what r(e)ligion the person follows.

   Doctor 1: Precisely our point. Medical science works on the body, and not according to r(e)ligions.  

   Relative 1: But r(e)ligion is to be followed in life and death.  

    

   Doctor 1: We are religious too, but we also need to be logical and ethical. To us, not saving a patient’s life is against our professional ethics.  

   Doctor 2: To us, the child is an unknown patient, but to you she is family; yet there is a discussion going on, about whether to save her life or not.  

   Relative 1: I understand what you are saying, but the decision is not ours.  

   Relative 2: It is for the parents to take the call.  

   Doctor 1: So the conclusion of our discussion is that there is nothing that we can do.  

   Relative 1: Not until the parents are convinced about the transfusion.  

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