Upon receiving their white coats for the first time, a physician must take the Hippocratic oath which swears to do no harm toward a patient. However, in real-life scenarios, the guideline of what constitutes harming someone becomes more ambiguous. A moral dilemma a medical professional will face is assessing the removal of a ventilator with a comatose patient’s family, which deoxygenates the bedridden person within minutes and eventually kills them. The utilitarian viewpoint argues that the ventilator must be revoked for the sake of the overall gain of the hospital; however, the more humane…