Israeli doctor, Trained To Heal And Trained To Kill

[Nesher]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1310199,00.html

 

[+Gocad]

No disrespect to him, but I do find this "swapping of oaths" to be problematic.

Edited March 22, 2008 by Gocad

[Viggen]

That is cool. One day you tell someone they have the flu. Next day your defending your country.

 

[Atreides]

Not to sound like an A** but this completely negate's the Hypocritical Oath ! But I'd guess that's the point of the article.

[+Dave]

Hypocritical is right! Wow. Talk about a conflict of interest.

[Guest Bounder]

you never met a Special Forces Medic have you.

[+Gocad]

you never met a Special Forces Medic have you.

 

Do medics take the hippocratic oath?

[Atreides]

Hypocritical is right! Wow. Talk about a conflict of interest.

 

Aarrghh ! I meant hippocratic oath...honestly, I was not intoxicated while typing that

[+JediMaster]

Combat medics the world over face this dichotomy, it's nothing new.

[TX3RN0BILL]

Well, in his particular case though I bet he'll try his damnedest to keep collateral damage to a minimum (or at least he should). And he's somewhat more detached from killing by being in a chopper instead of on the ground, holding a rifle in one hand and a medical instrument in the other, so to speak... It's not as if he could land the chopper there to treat a possible pacient of his own doing...