Sick patients in need of care may sometimes refuse treatment for reasons including financial constraints, personal values, misinformation about procedures, anxiety, etc. On one hand, doctors have the duty to help patients and to provide medical care, on the other, patients have the right to autonomy regarding medical decisions that concern them. The following dilemma then arises: should doctors offer medical care to patients who decide they do not want treatment? Ethical rationalism, a deontological ethical framework that does not consider the consequences of actions, but rather the…