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Do No Harm

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JAMES SCHLETT, EDITOR, [email protected]

Many patients believe that doctors take an oath to, “First, do no harm.” Primum non nocere is the Latin translation for this imperative. It’s a comforting thought, but there is no such requirement for physicians — not even in the Hippocratic Oath. Instead, this oath demands that those who take it should follow a “system of regimen … for the benefit of my patients” and “abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous,” according to Dr. Robert H. Shmerling, the faculty editor of Harvard Health Publications. Even though doctors...Read full article

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