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RE Q#2897
“..If a baby is born alive, isn’t it MURDER to kill him/her?
Why was this bill ever needed? Don’t drs take the Hippocratic oath to save lives?...”
https://www.quora.com/Are-doctors-still-required-to-take-the-Hippocratic-Oath
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[SADLY, NO THEY DON’T.]
https://gizmodo.com/doctors-aren-t-actually-bound-by-the-hippocratic-oath-1465044222
Doctors Aren’t Actually Bound by the Hippocratic Oath
Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com
11/15/13 8:00am
A binding agreement, as much a social contract as Social Security or Medicare, the traditional Hippocratic Oath holds those who swear to it to a strict code of professional and personal conduct. Contrary to popular belief, though, most doctors never take this oath—and, actually, most of us are probably glad they never do.
Original Hippocratic Oath”
Although scholars disagree about when it was written, or even who wrote it, the general consensus is that the Hippocratic Oath was penned about 2500 years ago. Most commonly attributed to Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, the ancient vow demands a lot from doctors, including a certain level of chastity, charity and swearing to pagan gods. It provides in pertinent part:
“I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this covenant . . . to teach them this art . . . without fee or covenant.
I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients . . . and I will do no harm or injustice to them.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give a woman an abortive remedy.
I will not use the knife. . .
Whatever houses I may visit, I will . . . remain[] free of sexual relations with both female and male persons . . .
What I may see or hear in the course of treatment . . . I will keep to myself.
If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, begin honored . . . . if I transgress is and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.”