So much for a Hippocratic Oath in India.One surgeon is shown asking a beggar, Where do you want to cut it?" To which the beggar replies, "From anywhere."The Indian Medical Association has launched a probe after three doctors were shown on television offering to amputate beggars' limbs for money.
The secret filming apparently shows one senior doctor offering to perform the operation for the equivalent of $200.
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Hippocratic Oath, India, Least of these,
Medical ethics, Medicine, Morality, Poverty
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
MEDICAL ETHICS: Arms! Arms from the poor; Legs! Legs from the poor!
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