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Vaccination programmes pose a dilemma; individuals face remote but sometimes catastrophic risks to ensure that the community presents no risk to them of the disease. If individuals fail to take that risk however, both they and the community will suffer. We cannot isolate ourselves from the community of which we...
The Oath is most unlikely to have originated in the Hippocratic school. Probably it came from Pythagoreans[2] who, like Christians today, were committed to respect for human life and the value of people as individuals. Christians adopted the Oath and a version 'from the Oath according to Hippocrates in so...
