Thursday, January 20, 2011
Hippocratic Oath
Based on the reading Euthanasia and the Physician's rule, it explains in detail the Hippocratic oath, and this oath "explicitly enjoins against any act by a physician or even any act by a physician that consists of providing the means by which a person can terminate his own or another's life. Actual medical practice in our times, however, does not necessarily abide by the restrictions of euthanasia found in the oath." Another key point in the oath is that a mortal human being does not have control over his own or another's life, the God's are the only one that hold that power, since humans "are their possessions or servants." Since the Hippocratic Oath is against assisted suicide, has the Hippocratic Oath been abolished in modern medicine?
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