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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 494456" data-attributes="member: 55568">"I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.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."This is part of the oath they swore yet these are its most widely ignored elements.Before the days when students paid money to get their degrees, if anyone applying to study medicine told the interviewers that it was just a job, they wouldn't get into medical school. Every student was asked, 'why do you want to study medicine?' It was seen as a vocation.</blockquote>

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