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To: wagglebee
Utilitarian bioethics proposes that the first duty of medicine is not to the individual patient, but to the "greatest good for the greatest number".

So the promise "First, Do No Harm" is meaningless.
11 posted on 08/28/2008 6:14:53 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (“Anybody who has used or advocates using a contraceptive knows when life begins”.)
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To: HighlyOpinionated
So the promise "First, Do No Harm" is meaningless.

*THAT* was abandoned by the medical "profession" long ago...

the infowarrior

15 posted on 08/28/2008 8:03:19 PM PDT by infowarrior
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