[Vision2020] Obama to Rescind Conscience Rule

[Tom Hansen]

The modern Hippocratic Oath, as written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic 
Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many 
medical schools today, from PBS at:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_modern.html

"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose 
steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who 
are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are 
required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic 
nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that 
warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or 
the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my 
colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not 
disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with 
care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all 
thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome 
responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own 
frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but 
a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and 
economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if 
I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to 
cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special 
obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as 
well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I 
live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to 
preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the 
joy of healing those who seek my help."

Where does it say "unless I don't wanna"?

Tom hansen
Moscow, Idaho



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