Charlie Gordon Discussion Questions

Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man with an IQ of around 68. For his whole life, he has only wanted to be "smart" like everyone else. Charlie has two doctors named Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur. The doctor's want to use Charlie as a test subject to test out a surgery to increase the Human IQ. Ethics are if you really did the "right" thing, so Charlie's doctor's did not act ethically when performing the surgery on Charlie. They had not kept their choices opinion free, they had not put Charlie's social life over science, and they didn't inform Charlie of the potential risks and side effects of the surgery.
First of all, Charlie's doctors did not let Charlie know the risks for performing the surgery on him. They simply tested him and Ms.Kinnian persuaded the doctor's to go and use Charlie as their test subject. The doctors had tested
They wanted to choose someone else other than Charlie.. If they had really wanted to help Charlie, they would have chosen him no matter if he was cooperative or if he was not. But the scientist had to be persuaded by Ms. Kinnian to do the surgery on Charlie.
Although the doctors did act ethnically on some action they did, overall, they did not act ethnically. A few things they had done right was when they had considered choosing the test subject was they had considered if the test subject was unwilling to perform the surgery. Charlie was all over the surgery. Another thing they had done right was they had considered how Charlie's life could be improved. Both Dr.s both knew how much it would improve Charlie's life if they had done the surgery on him.
Overall, Charlie's doctor's had not done the ethnical thing. They had put science over a patient's social life, they had not considered the side effects of the surgery, and they had not informed Charlie of the risks he will be taking when he takes the