Ordinary Treatment: An Ethical Dilemma

If you have the capacity to make a decision, you have the capacity to refuse treatment. If you do not have the capacity to make the decision, a surrogate decision maker can do so for you as long as they are acting your values, wishes, and morals. If you were to have an end-of-life document, this would make things much less complicated for said decision maker.
Some would argue that is morally wrong to refuse ordinary treatment versus extraordinary treatment, this has been the topic for many articles and conferences. Is it morally acceptable to let a patient refuse a feeding tube, the first round of chemo, and/or antibiotics? Is it morally acceptable to let a patient refuse a high risk and painful surgery that has a low chance of beating the disease? There is no easy answer when it comes to medical ethics.

Ordinary Treatment:
How much care is too much? Medical professionals are taught from the beginning to do everything possible to preserve the life of their patient. New physicians take an oath called the Hippocratic Oath that originated in Greece. The message of the oath is “first do no harm,” although this phrase isn’t found anywhere in the actual text. Euthanasia goes against the morals that you think would come naturally to medical staff.
That being said, another thing is true of medical staff, they do not want to see anyone in their care suffer, let alone needlessly. Even the slightest of pin prick, the staff doesn’t want to cause pain. Yes, they would love to see the patient be well again, but at what