What the Destruction of the Hippocratic Oath Means for Society

What the Destruction of the Hippocratic Oath Means for Society
View of residential units during a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on April 17, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
Yuhong Dong
By Archive, Health 1+1 and Yuhong Dong, M.D., Ph.D.
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Amidst the Omicron variant era of the pandemic, secondary disasters have been constantly taking place in many cities in communist China under strict lockdown. Some hospitals flat out refuse patients that don’t have a nucleic acid amplification Covid test report, leading to multiple deaths of people who could not receive treatment. What has caused these heartbreaking cases? And is the unimaginable happening in China a warning for the rest of the world?

A shocking psychological experiment, the “Obedience Experiment” designed and conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram, may be able to shed some light on this issue.

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China’s strict city lockdown policy has caused many tragedies. On April 16, 2022, the son of Shanghai violinist Chen Shunping wrote online that his father had experienced severe abdominal pain and vomiting, so he sought help from Tongji Hospital, which is affiliated with Tongji University, and the “No. 10 People’s Hospital.” However, he didn’t receive any treatment. As a result, Chen jumped off a building to his death. This issue immediately became a popular subject of discussion among Chinese netizens users.