Extreme Measures
If you were given the opportunity to find a cure for cancer, or perhaps a person's paralysis, would you kill another human being in order to find that cure? In the movie Extreme Measures, a medical researcher asks this question of a British doctor.
Dr. Lawrence Myrick is a well-known surgeon who is doing experimental surgery that could allow people that have spinal cord injuries to be able to walk again. His methods of performing this research include taking homeless people and people that he feels nobody will miss, and performing surgeries on them to find a cure for spinal cord injuries. Dr. Myrick decided that the means of taking a healthy homeless person and killing them by performing experiments on them justifies the end for finding a cure for quadriplegic paralysis. He justifies to himself that by being able to find a cure for quadriplegic paralysis there is no wrong in taking a completely healthy person and performing experimental surgery on them by cutting their spinal......
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