By defining any ethical statements as pathos you are attempting to force medical practice to be assessed in a logical frame. It is not valid to do so. It is an interpersonal endeavor with ethical requirements.
Whenever medicine is discussed on HN, there is a knee jerk response to assume physicians are incompetent and that search engines replace their training. We’re on the same path here. Is lying bad? Yes. Does that mean that a liar can’t be a good physician? Exercise left to reader.
Regarding your supposedly ‘ethical statements’ that aren’t actually arguments meant to draw emotion:
> People holding your current naive viewpoint is why we have professional societies with the power to remove licenses/disbar.
Where’s your argument? Also, total elision of the actual panel of the professional society that did not remove licenses. I don’t see ethics, or logic. Appeal to emotion.
> Someone who takes the hippocratic oath and then behaves in this manner is not fit to be a caregiver .
You don’t even know what the Hippocratic oath is, friend. And on your incorrect premise, you make some grand statement that does not follow (nurses don’t take this oath, so they clearly can’t be fit to be caregivers? Oh wait, that’s absurd. So is the oath important or not?)
> Medical care is about more than technical competence.
Emotional argument all day. And not even something in contention.
> I’d hate to see the state of the flattened world you seem to be arguing for. Please go read about the origins of professional standards.
You may not understand what pathos means.