{"id":16082,"date":"2019-12-02T02:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T09:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16082"},"modified":"2019-12-02T02:10:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T09:10:19","slug":"anti-hippocratic-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/12\/02\/anti-hippocratic-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Hippocratic Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Hippocratic Oath, usually summarized by the Latin phrase \u201c<em>primum non nocere<\/em>\u201d (\u201cfirst do no harm\u201d), has been a millennia old concept that a physician should be a healer and not an inflictor of pain and\/or death\u2026 more or less in modern times, especially with the spread and acceptance of abortion and euthanasia whereby more and more medical schools have been relaxing if not outright abandoning the Hippocratic Oath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, however, there is a move to not just abolish the essence of the Hippocratic Oath, but to instill a mirror-universe version whereby all doctors are to be <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/6183548\/medical-school-applicants-abortion-assisted-death-conscientious-objectors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">required<\/a> to kill <em>via<\/em> abortion or euthanasia or be banned as doctors. Thus, no practicing doctor could be trusted to uphold any semblance of the Hippocratic Oath, as any who would would be barred from medical practice.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA bioethicist is calling for medical schools to eliminate applicants who would oppose providing medical services over objections to them based on their personal beliefs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor Schuklenk [, a Queen\u2019s University professor and the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics], a possible solution to prevent such debates from cropping up at all would be to screen out would-be doctors who say they would object to providing health care on conscience grounds before they even get to medical school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis could be done through a survey or asking medical school applicants outright if they foresee themselves objecting to providing certain types of health care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2019The problems that we are having now that lead to the kinds of legislation they are considering now in Alberta is caused by these sorts of doctors who prioritize their private beliefs, ultimately, over patient well-being,\u2019 Schuklenk told Global News.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2019Medical schools, pharmacy schools should go out of their way to basically eliminate applicants who they know already will not provide these services.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The entire point of the Hippocratic Oath is to prioritize the patients well being, and maybe, juuust maybe, killing a patient or an unborn child isn\u2019t good for the soon-to-be-dead\u2019s \u201cwell being\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" alt=\"Death, Rx\" width=\"287\" height=\"269\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Worse yet, this so-called \u201cbioethicist\u201d cites the Swedish argument (always a sure-fire example of moral and rational incorrectness), which provides a Hobson\u2019s Choice:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSchuklenk pointed to countries <a href=\"https:\/\/gup.ub.gu.se\/v1\/asset_data\/198652\">such as Sweden<\/a>, where there is no legal right to conscientious refusal for workers in any profession, including in health care. This is also the case in Finland and Iceland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSweden holds that because no one is forced to enter into a profession and may resign at any time, no one can be prevented from acting on their own moral or religious beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This even worse than the Hobson\u2019s Choice the Left has been pushing on cake-makers, florists, and photographers on the basis that if they enter into a profession, they must abandon all personal freedom and conviction; in those aforementioned cases all services involved voluntary services ancillary to human survival, while forcing doctors, who provide life-saving procedures and preventative medicine, to at best go beyond their Hippocratic duties, and at worst despoil the same, in order to perform medically unnecessary surgeries?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is one thing to require that a doctor be willing to perform medically necessary surgeries, as well as other medically necessary services, as the doctor\u2019s knowledge and understanding guide; it is another to force someone who is entrusted with the health and well being of human beings to engage in unnecessary procedures that result in death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We have come from the dismissal of the Hippocratic Oath to the outright assault on the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No civilization can survive such an assault like this that goes on too long.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Hippocratic Oath, usually summarized by the Latin phrase 'primum non nocere' ('first do no harm'), has been a millennia old concept that a physician should be a healer and not an inflictor of pain and\/or death... more or less in modern times, especially with the spread and acceptance of abortion and euthanasia whereby more and more medical schools have been relaxing if not outright abandoning the Hippocratic Oath.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Hippocratic Oath, usually summarized by the Latin phrase \u201cprimum non nocere\u201d (\u201cfirst do no harm\u201d), has been a millennia old concept that a physician should be a healer and not an inflictor of pain and\/or death\u2026 more or less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/12\/02\/anti-hippocratic-oath\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-16082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16083,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions\/16083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}