My family has a long and sordid history with the medical profession. So based on my experience I propose a new Hippocratic oath- not entirely tongue-in-cheek.
Anyone wishing to add MD to their name must declare:
1. I will medicate a patient when I need to and not simply because I can.
2. I will not say a drug has no side-effects until I have taken the drug myself.
3. I will not prescribe any course of treatment I would not submit to myself when in the same position as the patient I am prescribing for.
4. I am not God and will act accordingly.
5. My patients time is more valuable than my own I therefore will not waste it.
6. I believe the patient may know more about his body than I do.
7. I will have no pharmaceutical reps before me.
8. I fully know that I can be and will be wrong some of the time.
9. When my patient speaks, I will listen.
10. Genes mean things.
Anyone wishing to add MD to their name must declare:
1. I will medicate a patient when I need to and not simply because I can.
2. I will not say a drug has no side-effects until I have taken the drug myself.
3. I will not prescribe any course of treatment I would not submit to myself when in the same position as the patient I am prescribing for.
4. I am not God and will act accordingly.
5. My patients time is more valuable than my own I therefore will not waste it.
6. I believe the patient may know more about his body than I do.
7. I will have no pharmaceutical reps before me.
8. I fully know that I can be and will be wrong some of the time.
9. When my patient speaks, I will listen.
10. Genes mean things.