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Flat White

Doctors are doctors, not philosopher kings

15 February 2019

7:47 AM

15 February 2019

7:47 AM

Doctors swear on the Hippocratic Oath that they will “first do no harm”, yet they pay little attention to the side effects they are causing with their activism.

The passing of the Medivac bill and the associated debate on asylum seeker health is an example of doctors becoming monolithic in their views.

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