Hippocrates: First, do no harm. Crowd: Duh! Hippocrates: You fail to appreciate how easy it is to do harm when you intend to do good. This is not a "duh."
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In reality it is always necessary to weigh the benefits of an intervention against the risk of harmful side effects. Not doing can also lead to harm. Our grandparents were not idiots. We deal with side effects caused by imperfect solutions to even more significant problems.
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Dont tell that to
@vkhosla: "the fundamentals of traditional healthcare institutions’ approach ... are mathematically wrong. So I rail against the Hippocratic Oath that every student takes. It says if you save 100,000 people and hurt 1,000, you shouldn’t introduced that new Rx". -
Utilitarians, sigh. Medicine does allow that scenario to happen, but only at the individual level. There is no harm in informed consent, and weighing risks and benefits.
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