#4 Get ready. COVID reruns planned. Excessive death rates all ages across the board. First do no harm is no longer in the pledge. Rather they are saying
it was never in the oath. "Primum non nocere – first do no harm – was in fact not included in the original Hippocratic oath as is often presumed, but as Medicine advances it becomes increasingly relevant. To first do no self-harm can be equated to the DRS ABCD(4) used in Adult Life Support training. The first D is a reminder to move the patient away from anything which is dangerous to them or the practitioner. In this context we could first consider danger to the practitioner'. |