Should medical professionals ever put their own health at risk to help a patient?

Pro: Doctors and nurses enter their professions to benefit others; they make that commitment from the start. They are fully aware that they will come into contact with sick people, and that health professionals are sometimes at risk for contracting diseases.

Con: Doctors and nurses enter their professions to benefit others. But they do not go into their jobs to die for others. Moreover, the good health of medical professionals is something a society needs to preserve.

Con: Societies are best served when their medical professionals are healthy and fully able to perform their duties. The loss of these individuals to illness or death could cause great hardship for the communities at large.