WHATHAPPENEDTO ‘DONOHARM’?
I t’s confusing for a lot of people knowing that your doctors have signed up to a medical code of conduct—proposed 2,500 years ago by the Greek doctor and philosopher Hippocrates—that undertakes they must “First, do no harm.”
Yet we also know that prescription medicine, the most common intervention offered by your doctor, is recognised as the third biggest cause of death in modern society. What’s going on?
Unraveling this paradox is not as easy as it might sound. There are a bundle of factors that contribute to it,
