Dr Makis is obviously, a man of principle, driven by the Hippocratic Oath code of ethics.
Here that is, and #3 is really noteworthy about abortion. You'd think the pro-life movement could use it to sue abortion clinics, who are under direction of licensed physicians, who violate the oath they swore to, and thus deserve to have their physician accreditation cancelled. Of course the liberals on the bench and jury would make nothing of that. Fuck them. Anyway... I digress. Here is the oath translated from ancient Greek:
I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.
To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the Healer's oath, but to nobody else.
I WILL USE THOSE DIETARY REGIMENS which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. NEITHER WILL I ADMINISTER A POISON TO ANYBODY when asked to do so, NOR will I suggest such a course. Similarly I WILL NOT GIVE A WOMAN A PESSARY TO CAUSE ABORTION. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.
Dr Makis is obviously, a man of principle, driven by the Hippocratic Oath code of ethics.
Here that is, and #3 is really noteworthy about abortion. You'd think the pro-life movement could use it to sue abortion clinics, who are under direction of licensed physicians, who violate the oath they swore to, and thus deserve to have their physician accreditation cancelled. Of course the liberals on the bench and jury would make nothing of that. Fuck them. Anyway... I digress. Here is the oath translated from ancient Greek:
I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.
To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the Healer's oath, but to nobody else.
I WILL USE THOSE DIETARY REGIMENS which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. NEITHER WILL I ADMINISTER A POISON TO ANYBODY when asked to do so, NOR will I suggest such a course. Similarly I WILL NOT GIVE A WOMAN A PESSARY TO CAUSE ABORTION. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.