MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hippocratic oath'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:59:13 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3678668&cid=t_145127_160_f&fid=36189&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skinmdblog.com%2F174%2Fthe-best-wrinkle-creams-wont-be-advertised-in-magazines%2F The best anti wrinkle creams according to independent scientists are those that contain natural compounds.  It doesn’t matter what designer or celebrity is promoting the products.   They get paid to do that anyway.   All that matters is the ingredients the product contains. The ingredients that work include Shea butter, avocado extract, the protein functional keratin, grape seed oil, vitamin e, CoenzymeQ10…notice a pattern?  All of these compounds are naturally occurring, not created synthetically using petrochemicals. The safest skincare products are always the ones that contain no chemical fragrance or preservatives.   The skin care companies try to make everyone think that artificial preservatives are essential to extend shelf-life, but the truth is this.   Natural ... Skin MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3678668 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:53:22 +0100 3678668 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2382300&cid=t_145127_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Fpushing-doctors-into-dual-mandate-and.html Physicians are being pushed steadily into an untenable position. On one hand, they are professionally obligated to render optimal care to each patient based on individual need. On the other hand, they are increasingly being looked to by bureaucrats and bioethicists as serving another role--for society--as the rationing arms of cost control.The effect of this would require doctors to give optimal care to some patients but not others, probably based on mandatory invidiously discriminatory categories of age, disability, perhaps even politically incorrect lifestyles such as smoking and obesity (but never, for example culturally acceptable risky behaviors like promiscuity). This dual mandate, if adopted, would place doctors and other health care professionals in a terrible conflict of interest-... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2382300 Fri, 01 May 2009 16:23:00 +0100 2382300 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2112157&cid=t_145127_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2Fchoce-is-one-way-street.html As I have often said, the culture of death brooks no dissent. The Bush "conscience clause" regulations protecting health care workers from being discriminated against in their employment for refusing to participate in medical procedures with which they disagree on religious or moral grounds, has been attacked in court by six states. From the story:In filing the lawsuit, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is seeking an injunction to stop the Provider Conscience Rule from taking effect. The lawsuit also asks the court to invalidate the regulation.Blumenthal said the rule would allow health care providers or pharmacists to deny a patient medical care without explanation or offering the patient a referral or information on alternatives, upsetting the balance between health providers' religiou... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2112157 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:19:00 +0100 2112157 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1908704&cid=t_145127_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F10%2Frevisionism-alert-trying-to-explain.html This is revisionism on steroids. The Hippocratic Oath is no longer taken by most doctors because it has some politically incorrect clauses, such as barring physicians from mercy killing patients, abortion, and sex with patients. I have written about those matters here at SHS before. But now an ethicist writing for the BBC tries to tell us that the Oath really didn't ban assisted suicide or abortion. From the article: The next part seemingly concerns euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, saying: "And I will not give a drug that is deadly to anyone if asked, nor will I suggest the way to such a counsel."Two leading scholars of the Oath, Littre and Miles, have however suggested that this passage alludes to the then common practice of using doctors as skilled political assassins. Steven Mi... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1908704 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:29:00 +0100 1908704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1146096&cid=t_145127_90_f&fid=34499&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalifmedicineman.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fphysicians-and-their-role-in-executions.html The New England Journal of Medicine has published a provocative editorial on capital punishment and the physician's role in carrying it out.Read my thoughts on this important editorial here.The New England Journal of Medicine has published a provocative editorial on capital punishment and the physician's role in carrying it out. In truth, the position taken, that no physician should agree to facilitate an execution is old and has been endorsed by many medical societies. However, in over 1,000 words, the closest thing to an argument in support of this are these words: "A profession dedicated to healing the sick has no place in the process of execution."Yet even this statement is offered without proof or justification and is merely a recapitulation of the authors' opinion. Cannot the exact o... California Medicine Man blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1146096 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:01:00 +0100 1146096