encerent
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They admit now that in medicine these days doing no harm is not practical. This old command is not compatible with modern medicine and isn't part of medical culture anymore. If we did no harm then we couldn't help people with chemotherapies, vaccines, surgeries, and all modern drugs. In fact medicine now is "first, do harm," and that is the oath medical students should take.
...:if physicians took "first, do no harm" literally, no one would have surgery, even if it was lifesaving. We might stop ordering mammograms, because they could lead to a biopsy for a non-cancerous lump....