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The Hippocratic oath is similarly local in scope. Individual doctors try hard not to cause harm to individual patients, but the medical establishment causes mas
by tlb 6y ago
The Hippocratic oath is similarly local in scope. Individual doctors try hard not to cause harm to individual patients, but the medical establishment causes massive amounts of harm, by:
- developing treatments for chronic symptoms instead of curing diseases
- being unprepared for pandemics
- making health care unaffordable except through employer plans
- promoting wrong nutrition guidelines for decades after the evidence was in
and more.
To have good outcomes you need ethics at both individual and system-wide levels.