Word: inserts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...carried out, violates the Hippocratic oath, by which all doctors vow never to harm their patients willfully. In fact, the oath specifically forbids using or suggesting the use of poisons. The policy adopted by Oklahoma tries to avoid any conflict with medical ethics by requiring "trained medical employees" to insert a drug-carrying catheter and inject the lethal substance. But does that relieve doctors of their responsibility? Not really, say the authors. They point out that a doctor must still prescribe the drug, supervise the lethal injection and pronounce the prisoner dead...