A while ago, I posted several entries at Secondhand Smoke about the ongoing deconstruction of the Hippocratic Oath. As I promised, I have written a longer article analyzing what it all may mean. It is in today’s National Review Online.
I am getting a lot of response already. I will post some of the comments in a later post.
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