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Unify the standard to practice primary care

Andrew Morton, MD
Physician
August 4, 2014

An excerpt from The Demise of Medicine.

As with the Aesop fable, familiarity breeds contempt. The role and responsibilities of the physician are being slowly eroded by the media, the legal profession, and even other allied health professions. The tools we hone and more importantly the thought processes physicians develop to diagnose and treat are different than the tools nurses or any other …

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Throwing the Hippocratic Oath in the trash

Andrew Morton, MD
Physician
July 20, 2014

An excerpt from The Demise of Medicine.

The Dalai Lama has once been quoted as saying, “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”  In a nutshell, the Hippocratic Oath can be summarized in this one phrase: “Primum non …

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