Just now, we finished the last class of medical ethics, although we still have a big homework to do. In the class, we discussed the future of the course. Many of my classmates feedback their suggestions. One of them, PCMan, talked to the teacher after the class, and I happened to hear their discussion.
PCMan said that he thinks it is not necessary to have such a class called Medical Ethics. Our thinking processes had been fixed since we are young. It’s too late to change it. And, he argued that why only the medical sphere has to discuss the Ethics. Why don’t the others have to? At that time, I was surfing the internet with my laptop, but when I heard what he said, I said that I don’t agree with him.
Although the personality of a person is almostly fixed when he is in his third decade, he still has chances to change it. PCMan is too pessimistic that he thinks “if we can’t change it, we don’t need it.” I do really not think so. When I discussed with my classmates about medical ethical problems, especially in the PBL course, I had changed several of my viewpoints. I received many thoughts from different point of view. Why didn’t he? The members of his team were too stingy to share their thoughts? I don’t think so. Maybe he is too stubborn to receive others’ thoughts. He frequently thinks that he did things in the best way. That’s my experience in working with him. The second, although only the medical sphere is asked for the ethic, it’s really not fair, does that mean we have the rights to escape from the upcoming problems? We can ask the others for morals, but before it, we can ask ourselves first.
Maybe it seemed that I didn’t get as much as I previously thought from the ethics lectures, but the above is what I has learned after the last medical ethics class.
雖然我們還有作業要做，不過就在剛才我們結束了最後一堂的醫學倫理。課堂上老師與我們討論這門課未來的走向，許多人也提出了一些意見，其中PCMan在下課後還特別留下來跟老師私下討論，剛好被我聽到了。
PCMan的意思是他覺得我們的觀念早就已經固定了，實在沒有必要再上這樣的課，來不及了，另外他也覺得為什麼只有醫界被要求要有倫理道德，難道其他人都不需要嗎？那時我正好在隨便看一些文章，不過聽到他的說法，我提出了我不同意他的看法。
我認為雖然我們的個性有大部分是早就固定了，但是並不會因此沒辦法再改變。我覺得PCMan太悲觀了，他認為沒辦法改變的事就不用去做，不過我覺得這麼想很奇怪。尤其在PBL的時候，我常常聽到許多同學對同一件事有不同的看法，我的想法也有點改變，為什麼他會認為完全沒改變呢？難道是他們同組的都沒有提出什麼不同的想法嗎？這應該不太可能，我想應該是他個性太固執了，甚至會認為他的作法都是最好的，他根本沒辦法接受其他人的意見，這是我曾經跟他共事的經驗。第二點，雖然目前只有醫界被要求倫理道德，這有點不公平，但這意味著我們能夠去逃避這個課題嗎？我們可以要求其他人也要有倫理道德，但我們是不是應該以身作則？
在大堂課裡我可能沒有學到像我原先想的那麼多，不過以上是我在上完最後一堂醫學倫理後的一點小感想。