Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw...
by tlb on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:29AM
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The Hippocratic oath is similarly local in scope. Individual doctors try hard not to cause harm to individual patients, but the medical establishment causes massive amounts of harm, by:
- developing treatments for chronic symptoms instead of curing diseases
- being unprepared for pandemics
- making health care unaffordable except through employer plans
- promoting wrong nutrition guidelines for decades after the evidence was in
and more.
To have good outcomes you need ethics at both individual and system-wide levels.
- developing treatments for chronic symptoms instead of curing diseases
- being unprepared for pandemics
- making health care unaffordable except through employer plans
- promoting wrong nutrition guidelines for decades after the evidence was in
and more.
To have good outcomes you need ethics at both individual and system-wide levels.