The Ethics of Medicine

[Hippocrates of Cos born 460-377 B.C] Born 1474 years ago and I believe the Hippocratic Oath should still be a marker for ethics in medicine.

     Medicine is the application of medicine in the act of healing, diagnosis, and prevention of medicine. This includes many branches of medicine like pediatrics, pharmacology, neurology,and other areas all based on human biology and myriad of other specialties. The etymology of the word medicine means "of a physician." I guess for once I'm biting off more than I can chew in this blog post.  First medicine started with the Greeks and the Hippocratic Oath. The Hippocratic Oath was started in 5th century B.C by  Hippocrates.Italians started to formally trained Physicians in 1220 A.D (After Death) also know as B.C.E(Before common Era), this I believe was the start of formal training in modern times. The translation of the  original version of the Hippocratic oath, Also Known as the Classic Hippocratic Oath, probably written by Hippocrates of  Cos. My comments are in italics.  "Apollo Physician 
and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine,and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art
 — if they desire to learn it — without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral
 instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but to no one else.
I will apply dietetic (meaning pertaining to diet)measures for the benefit of the sick according
 to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.(For all you people for euthanasia, abortion, or partial-birth abortion, this Hippocratic Oath presupposed your arguments.)I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.(Against Doctors using rape from their position of power.)What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
If I fulfill this path and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.^"  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath  Modern version of the Oath :"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.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism(meaning essential morality doesn't exist and life is with out purpose, not using any moral judgement in your treatment and decisions).
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 patients 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."

"Global Warming"

  I love how Democrats and Progressives including some Republicans think that a freezing world means Global Warming. Scientists go to Antarctica to study melting ice, guess what happens they get stuck in the ice, this is the epitome of irony. Yet most of the county is freezing as well as the Green Bay vs. The Niners game going to be one of the coldest in NFL history, yet the planet is supposedly still warming. Climate change has not even been studies for more than 80 years, either way, it needs to be studied like 100 years or more to get a idea of what is going on.  Michael Crichton said "Global Warming is treated as a religion"; it is religion you can't question. The LA Times does not allow denying opinions on Global Warming. So I believe it should be called Climate Change or be studied a lot longer until they say it exists. Another one against there dogma. Antarctica had a record -135.8 Fahreinheit temperature record set this year:http://news.yahoo.com/antarctica-cold-temperature-record-013050274.html. So I want to know what there answer is to why they scientist got stuck in the ice if the ice was suppose to melting at a alarming rate?