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From: "Zack Bass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> --- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, "goat!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > They do however take an oath to Apollo.
> >
>
> Most do not. Not Surgeons, for sure - they don't want to promise not
> to use Knives.
> http://www.medhunters.com/articles/timelineHippocrates.html
> "I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will
> withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work."
> (Hippocratic Oath - to Apollo)
>
> Many doctors these days swear a VERY DIFFERENT Oath, that they also
> CALL a "Hippocratic Oath" but it's NOT, it's just a made-up piece of
> crap that contains what they WANT it to contain - and it is NOT an
> Oath to Apollo at all.
I'm starting to think I'm the only one on this list who ever read the short
story "The Sumerian Oath" by Philip Jose Farmer.
--
Ward Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, if you're gonna buy a ticket on the Titanic, you might as well go First
Class.
Captain Audie Murphy, Texas Ranger, in _Roswell, Texas_ by L. Neil Smith, Rex
May and Scott Bieser.
http://www.bigheadpress.com/roswell/
