Ways that Physicians might harm Patients
Nov 14, 2023 5:02:14 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Nov 14, 2023 5:02:14 GMT -5
Ways that Physicians might harm Patients
Yes, of course we all like to trust physicians, and to feel that they are totally incapable of harming us purposefully. After all, they have taken the Hippocratic Oath required of all physicians, to never purposefully harm a patient.
....I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
– Translation by W.H.S. Jones.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
....I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
– Translation by W.H.S. Jones.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
Very reassuring. Right? Yet, unfortunately, the reality is, that every single time that a patient trusts a physician with prescribing medicine, or with surgery, they are risking being a victim of the physician's possible murderous machinations.
Also, very unfortunately, physicians have very effective and numerous ways to express harmful unethical predisposition. For example:
The physician might attempt to kill a patient by not informing him of a serious illness.
Or he or she might attempt it by prescribing ineffective medication.
Or if he is performing surgery, the physician might choose to unnecessarily submit the patient to almost unendurable agony or else the surgery itself might be purposefully botched.
Why? Well, despite being highly-educated, physicians are still susceptible to negative emotions. What emotions?
Well, there is the emotion of hatred fomented by racism.
Or a murderous rage provoked by Envy. You see, the patient might be wealthier, younger, or might be enjoying a fame that the physician strongly envies.
Or else, the physician might feel patriotically outraged because he feels that the patient is harming his beloved country, and should be eliminated. Feels an overwhelming responsibility to setting things right. He might conclude that he is doing society a favor by eliminating the patient and in that way of doing MAGA.