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Hippocratic oath

noun as in doctor's promise

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Please, empower OBs to apply their medical expertise and honor their Hippocratic oath.

"The Hippocratic oath supposedly says 'first, do no harm,'" Reynolds explained.

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Since then, the Hippocratic oath to “do no harm” has been incorporated into the humanitarian lexicon.

“There’s the Hippocratic oath, though. I mean the medical profession is a profession,” she said.

“But I think it’s very dangerous to have doctors violating their Hippocratic oath and killing people…I want the doctor to play doctor, and not executioner.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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