Posted on 12/11/2007 8:20:31 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Not against surgery per se, but surgery by someone not qualified to do it ("I will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.") And not only against sodomy, but aainst any sexual relations with a patient or a member of the patient's household, of either sex.
btt
OMG. We’re doomed.
I want to be able to trust a doctor to SAVE my life, not worry about whether or not he’s going to take it based on his convenience or pressure from the hospital cause there’s not enough beds, or I cost too much.
What a huge difference.
We’re doomed.
This Oath, like the Ten Commandments and the Constitution (without penumbrae), is one of the few things that are keeping us from the abyss. I don’t feel that I am a nut-case in viewing this sad pronouncement as yet another portent of Armageddon.
Human life sacred? Nah, we must move with the times. Maybe that Hitler fellow was right after all — who’s to say that some life is not more valuable than others. /sarcasm
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