Transplanting a Face: The Ethical Issues

A face transplant is different from other kinds of transplants, medical ethicists said on Wednesday, and the risks and benefits to the patient must be weighed carefully.
My Reaction:
A few years ago, I saw the movie “Face Off”. This movie impressed me a lot and gave me a surprising and unexpected feeling because I have never thought of that one day we can do “something” on our faces. Besides, I am convinced that this movie brings our people and society many controversies on morality, medical care, and……etc. Nowadays, our techniques on medical science have been improved and developed to an advanced step in a fast speed. But I do approve of the problems mentioned on this article that it produces so many ethical problems which are inevitable.
First, the side effects after that king of surgery are numerous, and, even death. We can see a large number of cases concerning serious damages and harms for patients who take certain medicine after the surgeries. Next, experts question the correctness of doing face transplants. If we have enough medical resources, we should make good use of it to help more and more people who really need help. As far as I am concerned, people shouldn’t waste too many resources on it. Eventually, I think the most important and serious problem is that it disobeys the ethics. It is very informal to see a person’s face whose body is dead on a live person. Although this technique has been developed, we shouldn’t make it happen and the specialists ought to emphasize the flaws of the face transplant. (236 words)