At the end of June the world was shocked by the news that several doctors of Indian, Jordanian and Iraqi origin had participated in a bomb plot in London and at Glasgow airport. During the investigation the net was cast into Australia, and several Indian doctors were rounded up for questioning. One Indian doctor, by the name of Mohammed Haneef was arrested at the Brisbane airport as he was trying to make a hasty exit from Australia. He had a ready made excuse that he was going to visit his wife and child. (more about this story in another post because it is still developing). What is so stunning though, is that men and women who undertake study for the purpose of saving lives actually participate in the culture of death.
These doctors are the tip of an iceberg with a profession that has almost abandoned the old principles that are associated with the Hippocratic oath that is meant to uphold the life of the patient.
"Doctors are in a position to do both great good and great harm. Understanding a little of their own darker motivations can be helpful in keeping them from becoming monsters like Dr. Mengele or Dr. Zawahiri or Dr. Shipman (who has the distinction of being the most prolific serial killer of all time) --but that potential certainly lies within every physician--to a degree that is likely significantly greater than most other humans.
When those of our profession who have taken the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm" are involved in incidents like the recently attempted terror bombings in England and Scotland, the horror experienced by all prospective patients who put their lives in our hands is palpable. When a terror plot is hatched in a hospital; and when some doctors who give into that dark side of themselves and find enjoyment, meaning or even religious awe by causing death instead of preventing it--it seems far more terrifying than any actions by your typical run-of-the-mill barbarian thug. After all, one expects a certain repellant style of behavior from barbarian thugs. It is extremely shocking to discover that the same repellant style can also exist in members of a profession that prides itself in saving human life."
Doctors who involve themselves in terrorist jihad are abandoning the Hippocratic Oath. What is truly shocking about the attempted bombings is that the participants showed little or no regard for human life. They have acted in a contradictory manner, forgetting that they joined a profession that is supposed to uphold the principle of the right to life.
When those of our profession who have taken the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm" are involved in incidents like the recently attempted terror bombings in England and Scotland, the horror experienced by all prospective patients who put their lives in our hands is palpable. When a terror plot is hatched in a hospital; and when some doctors who give into that dark side of themselves and find enjoyment, meaning or even religious awe by causing death instead of preventing it--it seems far more terrifying than any actions by your typical run-of-the-mill barbarian thug. After all, one expects a certain repellant style of behavior from barbarian thugs. It is extremely shocking to discover that the same repellant style can also exist in members of a profession that prides itself in saving human life."
Doctors who involve themselves in terrorist jihad are abandoning the Hippocratic Oath. What is truly shocking about the attempted bombings is that the participants showed little or no regard for human life. They have acted in a contradictory manner, forgetting that they joined a profession that is supposed to uphold the principle of the right to life.
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