Doctors Without Ethical Borders

California Globe ^ | December 19, 2022 | Thomas Buckley

[artichokegrower]

Since the time of Hippocrates, medicine has had one common thread – first, do no harm.

Often, the harm done is only clear in retrospect – bloodletting, various treatments involving toads, the “humours” system of diagnostics all seem just plain batty to us today (let alone the humour balance test that involved tasting the patient’s urine, but that was more the doctor’s problem.)

Moving closer to today, the idea of putting x-ray machines in shoe stores, giving codeine to three -year-olds, and touting the healing power of drinking potions laced with radium all seem like bad ideas now.

[artichokegrower]

How different is this from what occurred before with forced sterilizations, on-demand hysterectomies, etc. for the “good” of the patient and society? In what can only be labelled cosmic irony, the 1909 law that enshrined forced sterilizations in California was called “The Asexualization Act.”

In case you were wondering, the A in LGBTQIA+ stands for “Asexual.”

Never to be left out of a psychotic medical trend, California is now the nation’s first state to declare itself a “sanctuary” for transgender youth seeking “gender-affirming medical care.”

Genetical mutilation is a crime. Sterilization of minor children is a crime. Putting out alternative but truthful medical information concerning the COVID mandates is not a crime.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Victorian doctors removed uteruses by the bushel in order “cure” women of a variety of maladies, though many of those “cures” actually involved wanting to make women more compliant and calm and docile ....

So what's wrong with that?

[Nifster]

Other than it doesn’t work

[Mr Ramsbotham]

But it’s the thought that counts.

[jmacusa]

Also included in the Hippocratic Oath is this passage: ‘’No physician shall preform an abortion nor provide the means to do so’’.