CandySlice
This is a Dark ride
Hospitals and doctors cannot actively participate in someones actual death but they can keep you in a deep painless sleep and in my dads case when the end was very near our dr gave us a full bottle of injectable opiates to take home with us (his wish was to die at home and he only lasted one more day after being released from the medical facility) It was cancer (non-hodgkins lymphoma) agressive and painfull even in optimum circumstances.
Point being : it isnt all black and white out there. There are some things never spoken about in the name of compassion.
There is also reasons doctors give the oath. They are taught many deadly things and the oath Id to insure us patients that we can trust them. Hoe do you trust people who seem to only want to end life?
I've never seen a doctor ('m sure they exist) that would just want to kill someone. As you said, The first part of that oath is 'first, do no harm' But where is the line and where is the REAL harm if your patient is suffering and you can do no more for them? I think 'harm' comes in all shapes and sizes too.
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