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The Hippocratic oath is based on the notion that physicians will above all else do no harm to others. It is explicitly stated that this concept is first, and everything else follows that. Don’t subject prisoners of warm to hypothermia and hyperbaric experiments. Don’t vivisect thieves or debtors to better understand anatomy. Don’t separate twins to study genetics. But what if the people who employ a physician do harm to others; what role does a doctor play then?

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