(Wesley J. Smith / NRO) – “Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so.” So says the Hippocratic Oath.
Alas, the oath is as dead as the patients some doctors now assist in suicide. In California, the Sutter Family Residency Medical Program even offers residencies to train doctors in assisted suicide — euphemistically called medical aid in dying (MAID).
Chillingly, most of the doctors who participated in a small study on assisted suicide and who prescribe poison as part of their job like it. CONTINUE