Monday, April 26, 2010

How the Hippocratic Oath determines medical action

Why euthanasia and abortion are wrong.

At the risk of pontification, my thoughts on this are:
The job of a physician is to "first do no harm" per what I understand from TV but I found this:


"I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion."

This comes from the Hippocratic Oath which you can Check here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

Therefore a Doctor has no place to do anything but to preserve and prolong life.

However, we have the special situation where the person is suffering and in pain and may have no chance to survive. This is the journey that the person has to follow. To commit suicide is the easy way out and some say that because the lesson is not learned, that they are fated to suffer the same problem in the next life. The being has to confront it. Its a bitch, but by confronting it, they can gain the intelligence to fix the problem or whatever. This would include the realization that they brought the condition on themselves and how they created it!
Now, when a person is in pain etc, this should spark an investigation to get to the Real Why of the condition. Finding the right Why will lead to a handling for that condition. All these complexities of assisted suicide, drugs, life support etc are masking the real problem and should only be used while the experts (and the patient) get to the real why.
The State has no place in this as quite clearly the task is to prolong life. Any action taken to do anything else no matter how humanitarian it is proposed to be is criminal and should result in incarceration after a trial.
People with an agenda will come up with "special cases" but when the right why is found, the special case will no longer exist. A "special case" means only that the Dr is incompetent and did not find the right why. So get a specialist to handle it!

Does this cover all circumstances? Is it clear enough so a politician can understand it? Am I being too demanding, callous perhaps? What comments?



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