Ready? Your starter for 10... From where are these phrases quoted? "With purity and with holiness I will pass my life... and [I] will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption" Anybody...?
Wow! Straight out of the gate. That's right, it's from the original Hypocratic Oath. I'm impressed - with you, at least. Less impressed with doctors openly threatening to cover up clinical errors though, hence my looking it up. Hypocrates would be horrified, I reckon.pic.twitter.com/RJ29yg5t75
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Doctors don't *actually* swear on the H Oayh though. You may also be less enamoured with the paternalistic culture of doctoring it promotes
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Appreciated. It was more a search to try and identify something which might help me explain my strength of feeling about the current stance being taken by some. The principle still rings strong to me though.
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Sure. Did a little research on med ethics a while back and lots of old school "don't tell the patient/dr know best" teaching
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That doesn't play well with me at all - as you righty suggested.. I think some clinicians have been living in a bubble for too long. They know nothing else. Values which can become accepted in that environment, can be viewed as abhorrent by those who then look in from outside.
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Even well meaning "It'll cause too much distress" can, and has, lead to significant harm
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I have no doubt. I equally don't doubt that it offers a less well meaning, convenient rock behind which to hide on occasion.
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John, one of the wonders of google: it recognizes quotations
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Aha! Now I know why they don't allow electronic devices in exams!
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