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- All graduating medical students once pledged first to “do no harm”—the most well-known and fundamental promise. However, the original Oath has been rewritten to accommodate efforts to legalize and normalize euthanasia, assisted suicide, and abortion, which are explicitly prohibited in the original Oath.
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Apr 21, 2021 · All graduating medical students once pledged first to “do no harm”—the most well-known and fundamental promise. However, the original Oath has been rewritten to accommodate efforts to legalize and normalize euthanasia, assisted suicide, and abortion, which are explicitly prohibited in the original Oath.
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Nov 14, 2018 · Non-maleficence states ‘first, do no harm’ – ‘primum non nocere’. 27 Conformation to these fundamental principles is enshrined within Hippocratic Oath, which involve aiming to benefit, or perhaps most importantly, not doing any harm to a patient. Moreover, modern medical education in most countries follows legal and cultural ...
- Andreas Fontalis, Efthymia Prousali, Kunal Kulkarni
- 2018
Mar 2, 2022 · After the Oath’s invocation of gods, but before the Asclepiad promises not to harm, comes the Hippocratic innovation. Unrelated males who promise to act as sons to Asclepiad physicians can be taught this august practice.
- William Stigall
- Linacre Q. 2022 Aug; 89(3): 275-286.
- 10.1177/00243639211069431
- 2022/08
That resistance is traditionally couched in doctors’ adherence to our understanding of the Hippocratic oath. But it’s becoming harder for us to know what is meant by “do no harm.”
Feb 14, 2019 · The Hippocratic Oath contains this line “I will not give a drug that is deadly.” This is often interpreted as a prohibition of euthanasia. However, both the great lexicographer Emile Littré and the respected physician-ethicist Steven Miles conclude that this was in fact a prohibition against doctors collaborating in murder.
Jul 13, 2020 · These lines in the Hippocratic Oath seem clear enough. The oath prohibits physicians to facilitate for their ill patients to take their lives. This conclusion has been questioned, suggesting that what is meant is a warning for the administration of drugs with serious side effects.
Feb 9, 2022 · For more than 2,500 years, doctors have taken the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm and treat those under their care. Does bringing death by euthanasia violate the Hippocratic Oath, or is it in line with a doctor’s mission?
