The problem is pervasive. It is not confined to medical ethical issues. It has to do with our values system. Materialism makes things more important than people. Profit is more important than life.
Quality of life is more important than quantity.
Atheism, humanism, paganism place life and its meaning outside the realm of God and subjectively creates its own values. In a world preoccupied with the physical and material, medicine becomes a substitute for spiritual health instead of a complement to it. Doctors become gods. The youth culture fears death and aging. Physical health is confused with spiritual health.