The Cruelest Irony of All - When "Those Who Heal You Will Kill You"

re: "...Presently, however, there is a steady cultural shift in the medical community away from the understanding of the physician as healer, towards an acceptance of the physician also as killer. It may be tempting to immediately think "abortion," and while that is a true instance of the disturbing trend at work, the problem is deeper than that, and is creeping into every nook and cranny of the medical arts, to their very foundation. /It is no accident that the Hippocratic oath was abandoned by the medical community in the 1970s--an act that has had a devastating effect upon the healthcare professions. /Only yesterday, for instance, LifeSiteNews ran a story about the fact that two nurses have been charged in Oregon for performing an assisted suicide, which seems like a positive story at first glance, at least insofar as the nurses are being charged. But the story is suffused with the same cruel irony found in the story of the U.K. terrorists. For the nurses have come under fire, not because they killed their patient, but because they killed their patient without a physician present...[snip]...Stories like these are multiplying, so that hardly a day goes by when we don't report on a case where someone who has been trained to save lives, has instead used their knowledge to prematurely end a life..."...