I do not know how anyone could not like Dr. Moore or think that he is a bad person. He had scientific reasoning for all of his "experiments" and he decided every move he was going to make on a patient before he entered the operating room. He was not some scientist just running experiments because he thought they would work; he produced effective results almost every time. He did everything he could to save a patients' life, regardless of whether or not he "experimented" with them. A doctor with that much knowledge and confidence and a doctor who can produce amazing results should be given the permission to try to save a persons life with any means that are scientifically reasoned, especially when the patients survival is statistically low. Im not sure why he felt "guilty" at the end of his life. He did see a lot of deaths, but he was doing what he could to save them.
Gawande-Francis Moore
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