Posted by mz
on March 10, 2009, 1:52 am, in reply to "Business ethics with doctors "
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Well, sorry for the straight-forwardness, but you're thinking about a communist country in democratic terms.
The problem is not "the incentive to become a doctor," it's what can they become in the first place? In a lot of developing countries, people don't have as much freedom to choose what they want to be or what they want to do, like they can in America. A lot of the times, you've got just a few options; you either do it, or you go live on the street.
Oaths and morals don't exist in a country as corrupted as Romania, whose corruption was explicitly mentioned in the article. Yes there is personal moral, but not in the society. When everybody is doing things corruptively, you can only follow suit, otherwise there is no way for you to survive. Say you want to follow the morals and decline bribes, then you don't get paid enough to pay rent, then what are you going to do?
Besides, not everyone loves, or even likes, what they do. Just take the U.S., not even Romania, a lot of people make a lot of money and hate their jobs. So it's not necessary true that if one wants to be a doctor, then his/her reason is to help people out. The case in Romania is even less true, as mentioned above, they don't have that many options.
Relating back to business ethics, in corrupted countries, it's the government and the entire system that has to change first, before we can REALLY talk about ethics. Not even just business ethics, but any kind of personal or impersonal ethics. When people can't survive in a normal basic basic condition, they don't even have time to mind their basic living, how would they have time to heed moral or ethics.
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