Stanley Milgram's The Perils Of Obedience

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I must agree with Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist, who believed that in our society an individual has become obedient to the immoral demands because they have abandon responsibility for their actions. In “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram he states,
There was a time perhaps, when people were able to give a fully human response to any situation because they were fully absorbed in it as human beings. But as soon as there was a division of labor things changed. Beyond a certain point, the breaking up of society into people carrying out narrow and very special jobs takes away from the human quality of work and life. A person does not get to see the whole situation but only a small part of it, and is thus unable to act without some kind of overall direction. He yields to authority but in doing so
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For you to understand the situation I should explain at the time the hospital was going through an expansion and remodel, although the hospital is non- profit and self-sustaining it needed to show the investors as a hospital they were more than capable of doing so. You can imagine our department being one of the main resources of income was pressured to produce and that meant to be aggressive on our collections it was horrible, management expected from us as an individual to meet quotas that they set forth, if not meet we would have to go various training and if continued given a bad review that might affect our pay increase. I hated that part of the job when I was young I was led to believe that a hospital was a haven, a place you go to get help not a bill, I still needed to provide for my family, so I had to ignore my conscience. Consequently, a gentleman brought his son in the emergency room, I did as I always did followed procedure and