People delude themselves and others every day. Some believe they are following this oath in spite of blatant contradictions between the oath and their practice of medicine. Others see no moral dilemma because they have no higher functioning moral "mind" to call them on it. They are split off and to me, when I attended med school as a grad student in pharmacology, with 250 med students, some of whom I attended undergrad school with, there was a definite split or dissociation that happened to a lot of them right before my eyes. They did not want to study with me because I needed to be able to reason through stuff and they just wanted to memorize it and go party.
It just IS this way, call it the human condition. But if we were all perfectly moral and functional beings do you really think we would have come back for yet another Earth lifetime? LOL Garnet On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 17:11, Deb&Mark wrote: > Whatever happened to the Hippocratic Oath: > > THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH > I swear by Apollo the physician, by Æsculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I > take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my > ability and my judgement, the following Oath. > > > "To consider dear to me as my parents him who taught me this art; to live in > common with him and if necessary to share my goods with him; to look upon > his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art if they so desire > without fee or written promise; to impart to my sons and the sons of the > master who taught me and the disciples who have enrolled themselves and have > agreed to the rules of the profession, but to these alone the precepts and > the instruction. I will prescribe regimen for the good of my patients > according to my ability and my judgement and never do harm to anyone. To > please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause > his death. Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion. But I will > preserve the purity of my life and my art. I will not cut for stone, even > for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to > be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art. In every house where > I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far > from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the > pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves. All that > may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily > commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret > and will never reveal. If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life > and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve > from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot." > > or is that just a fairy tale now. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "sol" <sol...@sweetwaterhsa.com> > CS>Hydrogen Peroxide > > > > You are probably right about the legal issue. When did the responsibility > > change from helping a patient, to prescribing pharmaceuticals? Is this > > relatively recent, or did I just spend the majority of my life ignorant of > > the true purpose of MDs? It all seems to be escalating so > > fast.............. > > sol > > > > Christine Carleton wrote: > > > >>Sol, > >> > >>It's not personal. It's legal. > >> > >>In court the first responsibility of an MD is to prescribe pharmaceuticals > >>rather than suggest clean water or food to patients. > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > > > > > >
