BAD NEWS.While doctors pledge to "give no deadly medicine to any one if asked" as part of the Hippocratic Oath Hippocratic oath ethical code of medicine. [Western Culture: EB, 11: 827] See : Medicine , apparently that promise does not extend to administering capital punishment. According to a survey published in the Archives of Internal Medicine The Archives of Internal Medicine is a bi-monthly international peer-reviewed professional medical journal published by the American Medical Association. Archives of Internal Medicine and noted by National Catholic Reporter, 43 percent of the physicians surveyed said it is acceptable for doctors to give lethal injections to condemned criminals, and 72 percent saw no problem with pronouncing pro·nounc·ing adj. Relating to, designed for, or showing pronunciation: a pronouncing dictionary. executed prisoners dead, even if they have to ask executioners to provide more drugs to finish the job. An American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. ethics official called the findings "troubling." |
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