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Are doctors inhumane?

"I swear by Apollo Physician, by Askelpios, by Health, by panacea and by all the gods and goddesses, making them witnesses that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture. I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but I will never use it to injure or wrong them." We all remember these lines as a part of Hippocrates oath – the principles we vowed to follow in our medical practice. But now I feel its time we look back and ask ourselves, are we really following them? If yes, then every now and then, why do we get to hear: "Petition filed against doctor for negligence", "Dispute between doctors and patients", "Doctors going inhumane". So, the question here is "Are the doctors becoming inhumane?"