CSN - Citizen Voice Bulletin - 9/27/2022
Tuesday Bulletin
FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
Around a month ago, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released admissions of 'Pretty Dramatic, Pretty Public Mistakes' in handling of Covid 19: CDC Director Admits Agency Made 'Pretty Dramatic, Pretty Public Mistakes' On Covid-19 However, more disheartening revelations just keep on coming. This unveiling of the truth leads to mixed emotions and concerns, not the least of which leads to diminishing trust in a previously trusted agency. Of course, one may realize that this is such a time in which diminishing trust in agencies and institutions that were previously relied upon and trusted is the new normal.
It is indeed a time of tremendous upheaval and a time in which people have their faith in such government agencies and traditional institutions challenged to the core. The average citizen aghast regarding the mire of misinformation and disinformation coming out of the CDC and other health oriented agencies of our government.
Today’s message is concerning this and it gets to the deeper cause within the overarching health issues we are facing as a society. The article entitled “Hippocrates, Where Art Thou?” examines the specifics of morality and ethics at the heart of the medical profession. It is an excellent article in my humble opinion. It is lengthy, but the topic merits the care taken to look more deeply and broadly at this serious underlying problem all Americans confront in this time.
It is our sincere hope that readers could please take to heart the messages in this edition, no matter the number of the various entries today, whether videos or reading material. Also, if our readers know others who might value them as well, definitely share today’s Citizens Voice with those who may need enlightenment. We are here to educate American voters who are still needing to be awakened, and to empower those who are.
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Hippocrates, Where Art Thou?
By Bill O’Writes
9/18/22
I thank Wesley J. Smith for his enlightened book “Culture of Death, The Age of Do Harm Medicine” which contains very wise and informative information, some of which is incorporated into this article.)
The Original Hippocratic Oath
The original Hippocratic Oath states: “With regard to healing the sick, ... I will take care that they [patients] suffer no hurt or damage. Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy her child. Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner ... I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood ... whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure ... If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate.”
Since the time of the original oath, a new version of the oath composed in the 1960s was meant to accommodate and also update the differences in today’s medical practice. The growing role of financial considerations, increased population, effective ways to see inside bodies, new surgical procedures, and new medications have greatly changed the practice of medicine since Hippocrates’ times for the better. We are all grateful for such important new knowledge, but a few of the changes have been dangerous and even deadly. Seeing this dichotomy between the original oath and the changed medical establishment, doctors who framed the new Hippocratic Oath state: “I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.” Sounds good so far, doesn’t it?
But let’s move on.
“I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.”
(Whoa! What constitutes overtreatment? What is therapeutic nihilism? Overtreatment refers to too much treatment and interference by a doctor while therapeutic nihilism pretty much eliminates the doctor’s interference at all, relying instead on the body to heal itself.)
“I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.
“I will not be ashamed to say 'I know not,' nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.
“I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.
“Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.
“Above all, I must not play at God.
“I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems if I am to care adequately for the sick.
“I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
“I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
“If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter.
“May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.”
I. Who Deserves to Die?
Obviously Hippocrates valued all life. His oath proclaims that all lives have meaning, and he had it right. Men are not gods. There are no exceptions to the value of human life. Who has been given authority from any higher source to do away with pregnancy and babies, or with the mentally ill or physically deformed if not the godless?
Though we have produced powerful medications and procedures in our day, today’s medical ethics clearly considers that some lives are more valuable than others. Many babies in the “wrong” wombs, the elderly, the mentally ill, those with serious birth defects, those nearing death and the handicapped are clearly on the low end of value. But if doctors follow the Hippocratic oath, they will do their utmost to preserve health and life for all human beings.
II. Denying medications
When I was four years old, I developed double pneumonia, and my temperature quickly rose to 107 degrees. The doctor informed my parents that if that high temperature persisted another half hour I would die. There was only one hope. A new drug had just been developed that might fight my infection quickly. My parents gave permission for the doctor to try the newly synthesized drug, penicillin, in a last ditch effort to save my life. The doctor was not afraid to try an experimental medication with promise to save my life. I truly mattered to him. What would there have been to lose in the effort? I was clearly dying anyway. Seventy-eight years of a mostly happy life later, I am extremely grateful to that brave doctor. Thank heavens he had never heard of therapeutic nihilism. (More about that later.)
Contrast that scenario with the way proven efficacious drugs were disallowed for use by doctors and even made unavailable in pharmacies during the COVID 19 emergency. Most doctors went along with this travesty, but there were some who lost their licenses and even ended up in jail as they fought for their patients’ lives. How many people would still be alive had doctors and their patients had access to already successful hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin treatments? After all, they had been used safely for other purposes for years. Hippocrates would have been proud of these brave doctors who fought for the right to try.
The Hippocratic requirement to “do no harm” is itself in a death spiral. Most doctors remain true to their oaths, but politics is forcing change in the medical sphere. The New World Order has opted to force doctors to pay homage to the sinister mantra: “we have a population explosion. Let’s do something about it.” There appears to be a world-wide government cabal to stop “population increase” partially by bastardizing the practice of medicine. Government medical agencies have become focused on using force to meddle in private medical care. They interfere in a doctor’s responsibility to properly treat human life and extend it comfortably whenever and wherever possible.
III. Abortion
Millions of potential lives have been lost through abortion. How many babies have been killed? Hundreds of millions! Could abortions continue if doctors refused to perform them? How can a doctor swear the Hippocratic Oath and then take the lives of developing babies? We have “lived” with legalized abortion for too many years. This evil practice was lawful nationwide until the Supreme Court recently overthrew Roe v. Wade. But even though abortion is now a state's decision and many have essentially blocked it, some states still endorse and encourage it, and rioters have forcefully attempted to overturn the court decision. Clearly, abortion is still not over. Even now, all a pregnant woman needs to do is travel to a state “next door” where abortion is still considered legal. But according to the Hippocratic Oath, any doctor who knowingly takes a life (inside or outside of the womb) should lose his license. The doctor who abets abortion has broken his oath.
IV. Assisted Dying
Have you heard of the acronym MAID? You probably have not. It is an acronym for Medical Aid in Dying. There is also the Hemlock Society, a group that promotes suicide. Hemlock is a potent poison, so this group euphemistically renamed itself as “Compassion and Choices.” Do you wonder why the name was changed? These two organizations exist to promote death, which is becoming a sad commentary on the American lifestyle. Or should we say “death style?”
Doctors or hospitals should never be asked to assist in death in any way. Their role is to heal or make comfortable when healing is impossible. Nevertheless, doctors are increasingly being asked to participate in patient deaths. Instead, they should keep the patient comfortable until natural death intervenes. But ordering food and hydration withdrawal is now “legally” available upon a doctor’s order. This termination of life is extremely cruel and does not relieve suffering. In fact, it compounds it. Dying in the Saharan Desert would be quicker and more humane. Some doctors already participate in VSED (Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking), which is becoming increasingly non-voluntary by courts. Unaware families sometimes agree to this cruel method of death, not realizing how horrifying it can be. Slow starvation and dehydration until death is a horrible way to end life and causes severe suffering even if a patient is given palliative medication. Courts may order this practice, but doctors are ultimately the ones standing aside to allow this horror. It follows that after writing such orders, doctors themselves may suffer extreme guilt even though the practice has been declared legal. Most probably still have consciences.
And no one should have the right to legally declare who gets to live and who should no longer use the planet’s resources. Keeping a patient comfortable until the time of death should never include VSED. And it should never be required by doctors if they are expected to follow their Hippocratic Oaths. There are many more humane ways to provide comfort until death. We are on a slippery slope. Particularly vulnerable are those with disabilities, the elderly, the mentally ill, and the long-term diseased.
V. What About the Elderly?
What about the elderly, and infirm? Aren’t they useless to society? Politicians likely think so. But what an insult! Although I am 83 years old, I am still enjoying my life and making contributions to my family and others, thank you very much. I have had health crises from time to time throughout my life, and I express my gratitude for the many doctors who worked hard to preserve my life. Most elderly citizens are still capable of doing much good, and they are usually well loved by their families. Even those with diseased minds can often still enjoy their lives. My twin sister is one. Although she is in Stage 4 Parkinson's Disease, she remains upbeat and happy in a good care center.
Nevertheless, there are some medical personnel who have decided aging citizens should no longer be a burden on society. They consider the elderly no longer useful and feel that they are uselessly wasting the earth’s resources. In truth, those more advanced in age have a different vision of life and they remember virtues the young may not yet have discovered. They have good answers to how life should be lived,
and they keep old values alive. Our elders remember a time when life was supremely valued by nearly everyone. In reality, the elderly are the repositories of much wisdom and value. We should be listening to them rather than reducing their population. But those intent on reducing world population obviously feel differently.
VI. Hippocratic Oath Redux
Once again, let us consider the enlightened oath of Hippocrates. Doctors would do well to occasionally review the oaths they took as a culmination of all their hard work in medical school. Some students become doctors for the income they will receive, but I optimistically think most truly desire to keep their oaths and consider the welfare of their patients above all else. I would like to think that most still honor their Hippocratic Oaths, preferably the original one:
“With regard to healing the sick, ... I will take care that they [patients] suffer no hurt or damage. Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy her child. Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner ... I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood ... whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure ... If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate.”
Amen to that.
At 83 years of age, “Bill” still enjoys expressing personal ideas. After completing a B. A. and M. A. in English, was chosen as Outstanding English Student for two consecutive years. While still a graduate student, Bill began lecturing in the English Dept. and retired after seven years. The Citizen Sentinels Network is proud to post Bill’s articles in the Citizen Voice Newsletter as it represents a strong voice defending the freedoms of our beloved America.
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