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FactoidCow Since: Oct, 2012
#1: Aug 31st 2016 at 1:05:19 PM

The description for Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath refers to a doctor in hiding who helps a patient, even though it risks blowing their cover. But the examples cover a broader range of situations. They include any situation where a doctor helps a patient in a way that conflicts with their other goals, whether or not that goal is "staying hidden". For instance, military doctors treating enemy soldiers during wartime.

Personally, I feel that the broader trope is more useful, so we should change the description rather than the examples. Thoughts?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: Jan 6th 2017 at 4:09:00 AM

Not enough evidence to justify a thread. Closing.

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