Posted on 03/15/2021 6:37:00 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist
In June of 1993, standing proud, I entered through the hallowed gates of medicine as I recited a time-honored oath. For more than two millennia, students of medicine worldwide have made a similar pledge. We committed “to do no harm and commit no injustice.” We vowed to rise above borders and fickle winds of “current thought.” And we promised to be guided by a moral duty to always to do the right thing. It was crystal clear: the patients’ well-being is the priority. Among it’s various versions, the Hippocratic oath supercedes transient ideologies as an ethical ideal that supersedes the populism of the day by proclaiming the Golden Rule of medicine, placing the patient’s health and interest above all else.
The problems start when politics and science comingle. When we politicize, anoint, and revere one ideology or individual, we inevitably influence not only our colleagues but the public at large. How can we expect the medical community of warring nations to offer aid to the injured from the opposing side if one is clear on their righteousness and their opponents’ inferiority?
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Medicare crosses my computer regularly. So tired of leftist bias.
Medscape
Bkmk
The Hippocratic Oath used to also include a promise to never induce abortions. The version I took at graduation had that provision stripped out.
Reconsider what? They’ll just cloak the politics inside the data they choose to reveal. Should ‘scientists’ go to Penn State or the state penn?
Amazingly, mine kept that passage. No worries, Hippocrates will be revealed as racist soon and his oath will be replaced by one more “inclusive”.
Mine too. 1984.
The global warming scientists were caught doing it.
Then they got all upset at the fact they got exposed.
Indeed. That’s where the snarky “state pen” remark comes from (for those who don’t know). One of those top global warming freaks living off of taxpayer grants for the last decade published his nonsense and got called out by a Canadian, who said “that guy belongs in the State Pen not at Penn State”. The ‘scientist’ sued the Canadian for libel. The defendant said “you have to provide your data to prove your case of libel” and the court agreed, but the State Penn guy refused. Case dismissed.
HA! Great example.
“The problems start when politics and science comingle.”
I see Keto/Obesity/Diabetes as the Ultimate Faceoff between politics and science. The science clearly says to stay clear of carbs (to get/stay healthy), the politics say that you need to carb-load to ‘save the planet’, as not eating carbs pretty much means eating lots of meat and other animal products, which means Global Warming.
So, do we stay healthy, or sacrifice our health to ‘save the planet’ (even if China more than negates all our efforts)...that is the question. Answer: It depends on how much power the Democrats have.
Micheal Mann,the fraud, against Mark Steyn.
Mark won. Mann still hasn’t paid up.
Spelling is hard!
Regards,
bump
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