When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.