If we really followed the prescription to "First, do no harm" then really we would have to stop doing surgery completely. If giving someone a drug which hasn't

If we really followed the prescription to "First, do no harm" then really we would have to stop doing surgery completely. If giving someone a drug which hasn't conclusively been proven to be safe is harm then cutting someone open certainly is. Someone may die from an unproven drug. Someone may also die from complications from surgery or anesthesia. But surgery will certainly leave a hole in their body.