Up in the Air – Suspending Ethical Medical Practice

“First I will define what I conceive medicine to be. In general terms, it is to do away with the sufferings of the sick, to lessen the violence of their diseases, and to refuse to treat those who are overmastered by their disease, realizing that in such cases medicine is powerless.”

– The Hippocratic Corpus

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