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Louve00 -> RE: Sen. Rand Paul: Right To Health Care Like Believing In Slavery (5/13/2011 4:21:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Great speech, very well said. A transcription of a part of the video is quoted below:
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SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): "With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery."
So you don't believe his ethics clashes with the hypocratic oath??
Hippocratic Oath: One of the oldest binding documents in history, the Oath written by Hippocrates is still held sacred by physicians: to treat the ill to the best of one's ability, to preserve a patient's privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation, and so on. There are many versions of the Hippocratic Oath. We here present two versions. First, the "classic" version (or more precisely, one translation of the original oath). And then, following it, is presented one of the fine "modern" versions of the Hippocratic Oath.
You can find those versions on this link, if you care to educate yourself. But I warn you, there is no mention of slavery in the oath, although, having worked in the medical field I know some doctors personally who do work like slaves....and beam with pride when they heal or improve their patients health..............and they never complain. Imagine that!! [8|]
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=20909
IMO Rand is no doctor I would want to schedule an appt with.
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