#4 Do No Harm

Better Off Dead by The Wheeler Centre

Apr 21, 202146:54News & Politics

No group has done more to persuade politicians to oppose assisted dying in Australia over the last 20 years than doctors. Citing their Hippocratic Oath to ‘do no harm’, they argue that giving doctors the right to ‘kill’,...

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