It's very sad.. Fortunately my Mother passed before Covid or else I would have been in the same boat. YEARS go I went to the cardiologist with my Mother and he RX'd a drug that (later we learned) required the patient to be observed in the hospital for a week upon taking it. He never suggested that. When I asked what the side effects of t…
It's very sad.. Fortunately my Mother passed before Covid or else I would have been in the same boat. YEARS go I went to the cardiologist with my Mother and he RX'd a drug that (later we learned) required the patient to be observed in the hospital for a week upon taking it. He never suggested that. When I asked what the side effects of the drug were he said "there are none". I said "What"? A few sentences later said "If I told my patient all the side effects of drugs they'd never take them". I said that's unethical right before he told me to get out of his office.
Look into the Hippocratic Oath.. Doctors aren't required to take it and they have a new one now as well.
It's very sad.. Fortunately my Mother passed before Covid or else I would have been in the same boat. YEARS go I went to the cardiologist with my Mother and he RX'd a drug that (later we learned) required the patient to be observed in the hospital for a week upon taking it. He never suggested that. When I asked what the side effects of the drug were he said "there are none". I said "What"? A few sentences later said "If I told my patient all the side effects of drugs they'd never take them". I said that's unethical right before he told me to get out of his office.
Look into the Hippocratic Oath.. Doctors aren't required to take it and they have a new one now as well.
Apparently they make up their own oath these days. Satan forbid! they commit to anything that has served us well for ages upon ages.