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(With apologies to Patch Adams and any other medical practitioner who actually puts patient care before any other consideration.)


Many medical practitioners have sworn the Hippocratic oath since it was first proposed by Hippocrates Cheap Air Max 1 Shoes , known as the father of modern medicine. Since that time, the oath has been changed by different societies to accommodate changing times, and, today, not all teaching schools require new doctors to swear to this oath. Below is an examination of one of the variants.


Para 1: I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment Cheap Air Max Thea Shoes , this covenant:


Fair enough, but do they really know what they are swearing to? Do you?


Para 2: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.


??in whose steps I walk,? that's the problem. The medical industry is build brick upon brick of so called scientific evidence produced by individuals who claim advances in medical science. Well, it's about time that it suffered from a double whammy KatrinaWilma hurricane of Category 5+ magnitude. That's what it's going to take to get them to realize that the American Medical Association and the scientific method does not have all the answers and that the very basis of their scientific method is Herbalism, a practice the AMA seeks to step on.


As for sharing their knowledge Cheap Air Max 2017 Shoes , this is definitely a patchy affair. Some do, if they can get a research grant to enable them to write a paper for publication in a scientific journal. But, if a doctor working for a drug house produces scientific evidence for the efficacy of another approach or a less expensive drug, they can't get their work published. Their over-riding need is to stay employed by the company whose principal goal is to find new ways of producing specialist drugs sold at exorbitant prices to increase their profits. Worse, these researchers have to sign secrecy contracts before they can be employed.


Para 3: I will apply, for the benefit of the sick Cheap Air Max 2018 Shoes , all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.


Ignoring the fact that the statement itself is grammatically incorrect (what else might they do in such a slipshod manner?), let us look at over-treatment and therapeutic nihilism: many children have been subjected to this phenomenon by doctor's ignorance of a child's condition. For example, epilepsy can be easily cured by naturopathic methods as practiced at John Hopkins School of Medicine and yet doctors throughout the world still prescribe drugs with horrendous side effects that do absolutely no good at all, i.e. they are therapeutically nihilistic and to use them is to over treat a condition for which there is a simple remedy.


The same applies to the treatment of gallstones. Gallstones are formed in the liver and only become apparent when they have moved into the gallbladder, becoming sufficiently calcified as to show up on X-Ray. There is a simply herbal remedy used for thousands of years that can relieve the problem in 24 hours painlessly and cheaply without surgical intervention. To subject patients to surgery is decidedly therapeutic nihilism in the extreme.


Para 4: I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science Cheap Air Max Shoes , and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.


Doctors practicing modern medicine in America are taught that medicine is a science. Whatever part of their education is dedicated to ?warmth, sympathy, and understanding,? we have no idea Cheap Nike Air Max 1 , but it is patently obvious, if only from the limited amount of time a doctor gives each patient, that these three qualities are not practiced in the majority of cases. When did your doctor last give you the warmth of a hug of sympathy, or show any true understanding of how you are feeling?


Para 5: I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.


The danger in this statement is that when a doctor does not know what a patient is suffering from, he rarely says so Cheap Nike Air Max Thea , frequently prescribing treatments for assumed conditions that the patient does not have. His alternative is applied by sending the patient to a specialist. If this isn't passing the buck, what is? The problem then becomes the specialist, and we've known plenty of those who don't have the answers either. Ask any rheumatologist, ?What causes the disease?? ?Aha,? he will confess, ?We really don't know??


Para 6: I will respect the privacy of my patients Cheap Nike Air Max 2017 , for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.


?? play at God!? Now this does bring a smile to the face and a chuckle to the throat. The moment you step into a doctor's office and ask his assistance, you are asking him to take responsibility for your health care. You, in that moment, are asking him to ?play at God?. Since when did a doctor acknowledge your own culpability and your own responsibility for your health? At that moment [url=http://www.cheapairma