If the doctor's killing is agent-relatively worse but the outcome is agent-relatively better for the five patients' doctors, the framework yields no coherent all-things-considered moral verdict.

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agent-relatively better(in ethics): Something that is good or beneficial from the perspective of a specific person's own situation or what happens to them, even if their actions might be questionable.
agent-relatively worse(in ethics): Something that is bad or wrong from the perspective of a specific person's own actions, even if the overall consequences might be good.
all-things-considered moral verdict(in ethics): A final judgment about whether something is right or wrong after weighing all the relevant facts, consequences, and principles together.
coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism): A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them

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