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alexit
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- Jun 3, 2020
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Doctors hold up the Hippocratic Oath as a reason for why they're against assisted suicide. LET'S just say that is a bowl of cherry picking.
1. Hippocrates (or whoever wrote the oath; there's debate about that) meant for the oath to be taken only by men.
2. The oath says a doctor can not use a knife (or scalpel) while treating a patient.
3. The oath says medical school should be FREE: "to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture." (This one made me laugh out loud.)
4. The oath is anti-abortion.
I mention this because doctors hold up this oath as the be-all, end-all of medical ethics. If they truly upheld the oath, there wouldn't be any female doctors, doctors wouldn't use anything sharp to treat a patient, they would offer medical school for free and they would have to be locked into a position of being anti-abortion. I don't know of any who would uphold all the tenets of the Hippocratic Oath, so them citing "Do no harm" could just as easily be "Don't ever use a scalpel."
It's an outdated oath, and the fact that it's still referenced shows how lazy the argument of anti-patients rights pro-lifers is.
1. Hippocrates (or whoever wrote the oath; there's debate about that) meant for the oath to be taken only by men.
2. The oath says a doctor can not use a knife (or scalpel) while treating a patient.
3. The oath says medical school should be FREE: "to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture." (This one made me laugh out loud.)
4. The oath is anti-abortion.
I mention this because doctors hold up this oath as the be-all, end-all of medical ethics. If they truly upheld the oath, there wouldn't be any female doctors, doctors wouldn't use anything sharp to treat a patient, they would offer medical school for free and they would have to be locked into a position of being anti-abortion. I don't know of any who would uphold all the tenets of the Hippocratic Oath, so them citing "Do no harm" could just as easily be "Don't ever use a scalpel."
It's an outdated oath, and the fact that it's still referenced shows how lazy the argument of anti-patients rights pro-lifers is.
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