>>13613086>What does this mean for prospective or current medical students?back to square one.
We came to be in an incredible age built on the unrelenting discipline and fathomless toil of our ancestors. The naive trust the masses display today was not the norm of history, but the exception. But, as we've seen, we have grown unappreciative of their gift, and descended to heathen tendencies.
There was a reason the hippocratic oath was so strict. Its not natural to lay ones body underneath a stranger with a scalpel, let alone laying ones bag of sheckles at the bed stand. People only came to trust doctors after centuries, if not millenia of practicioners doing everything in their power to earn that trust. To do no harm, to perform charity, to not dirty ones hands as executor in a death cult, all of these was to get to a place where medicine would be trusted.
But unfortunately, good times create weak men, Big health concerns itself only with profits, violating the hippocratic oath that has been truncated by a 1000 cuts of modernity, it is only logical that humanity turns to the old way of mistrusting
