Hippocratic Oath
Moderators: DJKeefy, 4u Network
-
hatusu
- Top Member
- Posts: 774
- Joined: Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:15 pm
- Location: West Bank Luxor
- Has thanked: 351 times
- Been thanked: 436 times
Hippocratic Oath
How do doctors justify going on strike for several weeks when they have all taken the Hippocratic Oath ie "Do No Harm"?(Genuine question, not a rhetorical one ....)
-
HEPZIBAH
- Luxor4u God
- Posts: 12116
- Joined: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:15 pm
- Has thanked: 1600 times
- Been thanked: 2601 times
- Gender:
- Contact:
Re: Hippocratic Oath
I don't know the answer to the question however, I do think many doctors would say that the conditions they are being expected to work under is causing harm - to themselves, their patients, the National Health Service, and society as a whole.
I do not know the whole of the Hippocratic Oath, neither do I know if it has been updated over the years to represent more modern English but, I do think the words 'Do no harm' are not fully representative of the real statement which I believe is more along the lines of '...avoid all intentional harm to...'
I do not know the whole of the Hippocratic Oath, neither do I know if it has been updated over the years to represent more modern English but, I do think the words 'Do no harm' are not fully representative of the real statement which I believe is more along the lines of '...avoid all intentional harm to...'
Experience is not what happens to you;it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley