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First, do no harm.
by grey-area 1y ago
First, do no harm.
- wongarsu 1y agoThat relates more to purposefully harming some people to safe other people. Doing something that has the potential to harm a person but statistically has a greater likelihood of helping them is something doctors do all the time. They will even use methods that are guaranteed to do harm to the patient, as long as they have a sufficient chance to also bring a major benefit to the same patient
- butlike 1y agoAn example being: surgery. You cut into the patient to remove the tumor.
- RobotToaster 1y agoThe Hippocratic oath originated from Hippocratic medicine forbidding surgery, which is why surgeons are still not referred to as "doctor" today.
- hirvi74 1y agoDo no harm or no intentional harm?