Hippocratic Oath

Gosport hospital deaths: when did ‘life shortened’ become a euphemism for murder?

June 21, 2018
Archbishop Cranmer
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The revelation that more than 450 patients died in a Gosport hospital after being administered an overdose of powerful painkillers is shocking and appalling. Or, in the words of Theresa May, "deeply troubling". The independent panel report into the 'culture'…

Assisted dying? Suicide courts, not doctors, will judge the merits of your death

August 10, 2015
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This iniquitous Bill refuses to die. It keeps re-emerging like a Godzilla sequel; forever coming back like the proverbial bad penny – unwanted, unpleasant, unfortunate. We are told that…

It's Tristram Hunt who should be taking an oath, not our teachers

October 14, 2014
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Poor Tristram Hunt. The Shadow Education Secretary's latest revolutionary idea of having teachers swear a public oath in the style of the Hippocratic Oath - committing themselves to the values of their profession…