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To: HangnJudge

I know that my father-in-law took the same oath that you did, but that was back in the mid-60s, I thought they had changed the oath since then (I know the original is adamantly anti-abortion and also contains a phrase that could be construed as prohibiting surgery).


25 posted on 01/25/2009 10:09:10 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
...and also contains a phrase that could be construed as prohibiting surgery

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.

The specialists, in today's vernacular, are called Surgeons

26 posted on 01/25/2009 10:36:33 AM PST by HangnJudge
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