What are the reasons for studying ethics in the health care profession?

Every single human needs or will need health care at some
point in their life.  How easy it would be, when working in the health care profession,
to become numb or indifferent to humanity.  If a doctor sees 50 patients in a single
day, they can easily lose their individuality, their individual pain and suffering and
become just one of a series, an endless series.

So like law
enforcement, or education or social work, the study of ethics in the health care
industry helps to remind people that they are, in fact, dealing with other people, and
often in their most vulnerable and frightened states.  Ethics helps remind them to treat
their patients with the kind of humanity they would like to be shown if the situation
were reversed.