What a piece of self-rightness drivel. I believe not telling the parents about the child may have benn the right thing to do, however this “physician” disgraces himself. It is horrible to see someone in pain, but that does not give us the right to “put them out of their pain.” It must be wonderful to channel the aguish at such a horrible sight, into a self-serving, self-rightness God-playing.  As Voltaire said (not that I know French), “Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer,” “if God did not exist, it would be needed to invent him.”  There are some things we cannot do, as if we do, we start playing God, something that (whether you believe in Him or not) is obviously the path to ruin, destruction, and the source of so much historic misery.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fighting-fear/201207/the-cyclops-child?page=2