Since the conception of the ancient Greek Hippocratic oath, it has been the physicians’ obligation to save lives and above all to ‘do no harm’. This being the quintessence of medical ethics till now with newly qualified doctors still having to take the oath. Yet recent dilemmas have shown that it is usually not possible for doctors to do only good without their actions producing adverse repercussions to mankind, a particular group or even a private individual. Particularly with the advent of genetic engineering and xeno-transplantation came a slew of debates that are usually established upon the principles of ethics, law, fundamentalism, theology, philosophy and even sociology. Is it then time for doctors to abandon their faithful oat
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