Word: harm
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...basic premise of medicine that doctors should be healers and care givers; that they must work for their patients' well-being; that if they cannot cure, they should at least do no harm. When they took their Hippocratic oath, they promised, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel . . ." But the plight of the incurably ill has challenged all these premises and left doctors and nurses deeply divided over their duties to the dying...
Whether surgical abortions remain legal or not, RU 486 is a reality. Now, the question is whether it will be taken legally and with recommended medical attention, or illegally and with a risk of harm...
...fervor for regulation it inspires. As Hills told TIME correspondent Richard Behar, "The inevitable result of a significant financial failure is that somebody thinks they can pass a law to stop another one. And it's just as inevitable that the law they pass does more harm than good. I doubt that there are any broad legislative lessons to be drawn from the Drexel experience, and I fear that our Congress will try to draw them...
...cruel sequel to years of political repression, hundreds of youngsters in hospitals and orphanages have become infected. An antiseizure drug may do more harm than good...
...prevent additional seizures and satisfy worried parents, physicians often prescribe phenobarbital. But according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, the drug may do more harm than good. In a study of 217 children from eight months to three years of age who had had at least one seizure, researchers at the University of Washington and the National Institutes of Health found that children who took phenobarbital daily for up to two years had significantly lower IQ scores than those who were given a placebo. Some difference was still apparent several months after they stopped...