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Doctors Won't Kill for the State

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That's the title of an OpEd in today's News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina.  It's written by Dr. Charles van der Horst, a professor of medicine at UNC - Chapel Hill.  LINK  Here's an extended excerpt: In April 2006, a group of physicians pointed out to the N.C. Medical Board that physicians participating in executions were doing much more than simply observing -- behavior that, in our opinion, was contrary to American Medical Association ethical guidelines as well as to the oaths of Hippocrates and Maimonides that physicians take upon graduation from medical school. (For example: "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. ... Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick" -- Hippocrates...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).