The Hippocratic Oath Is Dead by Wesley J. Smith - President Donald Trump - please help turn this country around!

Conversation starred. Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers Enable desktop notifications for Gmail. OK No thanks 17 of 45 Wesley J. Smith: The Hippocratic Oath Is Dead Inbox x Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 1:46 PM to me Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network Docs_SNE.jpg (The Weekly Standard) – The Hippocratic Oath is dead. “Do no harm” medicine is fast becoming extinct. Contemporary health care is increasingly under the sway of a utilitarian bioethics that makes the elimination of suffering the prime directive—to the detriment of traditional standards of medical morality that deem all human life equally worthy of care and protection. The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has been among the instigators of this shift. As early as 2005, the journal published (without significant criticism) the so-called Groningen Protocol—a bureaucratic checklist from the Netherlands that instructs Dutch doctors which terminally ill or seriously disabled babies they can lethally inject. In 2010, NEJM published advocacy in favor of an invidious health-care rationing measure known as the QALY (“quality-adjusted life year”), adoption of which has the effect of limiting care to the disabled and disadvantaged whose lives are bureaucratically rated as lower in quality than the lives of others. CONTINUE READING ------------------------------------------------ Each vulnerable patient and family who contacts our National Crisis Lifeline needs our help. I hope that you can make a gift to support the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network today. Please click here to donate. THANK YOU! Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network · 222 N 17th St, Suite 1104, Philadelphia, PA 19103, United States This email was sent to kmillerbloggerablogbyken@gmail.com. To stop receiving emails, click here. You can also keep up with Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network on Twitter or Facebook. Created with NationBuilder, software for leaders.