Hippocratic Oath

[photo from September 2020] IT IS AYA (Adolescent and Young Adult) CANCER AWARENESS WEEK. I’ll be sharing throughout the week, but here are just a few of my thoughts that I want to share. The Hippocratic Oath states “Do no harm.” However, story after story in the AYA Cancer Community…

Hippocrates, the father of medicine On the other hand, Hippocrates’ ancient medicine dealt with the complex micro phenomenons of individual human bodies but actively embraced the academic methods and principles of higher science in time to universal sciences such as philosophy and astronomy. Medicine originally deals with the individual. Medicine does not deal with “human,”…

Graduating medical school students traditionally swear allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath, which they assume mandates that they “first do no harm,” but it is dated and now coming under fire. Ever since the time of the honorable Hippocrates, newly minted physicians swear the traditional Hippocratic Oath that mandates that they…

I must say I am just absolutely dumbfounded by an experience I had yesterday. I went to see a new psychiatrist for the first time and I knew that the new doctor was going to want lab work done to see what my different levels were, and, since my primary…

The only doctor on the island was about to go sailing. He rang at 10pm just to check. Too late. — It was never our plan to have a baby on the island, but pregnancy did take place, and it would be difficult to blame anyone other than ourselves, for that. It was shortly after our marathon run that I felt sure I was pregnant, confirmed a week or so later…

This excerpt is from Chapter 5 of my upcoming book, A Case of Culture, available for purchase starting January 23, 2022. Learn more about the book here. Do no harm. These are the immortal words of the Hippocratic Oath. Kept alive from the White Coat Ceremony at the beginning of…

If I ask you, “are any algorithms damaging our society?” You might think of the recently released “Facebook Papers”, or maybe YouTube’s rabbit hole phenomenon, or several other issues that have been raised over the past two decades. Anna Lembke’s book “Dopamine Nation” highlights some of the risks involved with…

Create an oath to hold yourself to account with every action not the delegated tasks of others. — True Accountability The actor, humanist, author and comedian Stephen Fry said: “You are who you are when nobody’s watching.” Real accountability starts at home — holding yourself fully to account. …

Once upon a time Someone wanted to help So he went to school And studied hard Then grew up to be the doctor That electroshocked Lou Reed…