{"id":20590,"date":"2025-12-28T18:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/moral-dilemmas-in-medicine-why-some-problems-have-no-solutions\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:53:03","slug":"moral-dilemmas-in-medicine-why-some-problems-have-no-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=20590","title":{"rendered":"Moral dilemmas in medicine: Why some problems have no solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every now and then I go back to a book I read decades ago. Sometimes it feels dated, a period piece. Sometimes it sounds uncannily current, as if it has been waiting. And sometimes it does both at once, which is more unsettling. Recently I reread Moral Dilemmas in Medicine, first published in 1975. I<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/moral-dilemmas-in-medicine-why-some-problems-have-no-solutions.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/moral-dilemmas-in-medicine-why-some-problems-have-no-solutions.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Moral dilemmas in medicine: Why some problems have no solutions<\/a> originally appeared in <a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">KevinMD.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/moral-dilemmas-in-medicine-why-some-problems-have-no-solutions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article at source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I go back to a book I read decades ago. Sometimes it feels dated, a period piece. Sometimes it sounds uncannily current, as if it has been waiting. And sometimes it does both at once, which is more unsettling. Recently I reread Moral Dilemmas in Medicine, first published in 1975. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}