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William Carlos Williams 'The Use Of Force'

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“I forced the heavy silver spoon back of her teeth and down her throat till she gagged.”(“The Use of Force”2) This how William Carlos Williams shows the doctor using force in “The Use of Force” . In “The Use of Force” William Carlos Williams pouder whether medical professional should be allowed to use force on the patient. Every medical professional have an oath to save their patient’s life. When medical professional oath to help their patient by doing everything possible. “To treat the ill to the best to one’s ability, to preserve a patient’s privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation, and so on.” (“Hippocratic Oath” 1) This means that the medical professional should do all they can do so they can help their patient to health. “I swear to fulfill the to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of …show more content…

“As doctors, we do not recommend a treatment until it’s been proven safe and effective. This legislature-supported treatment has not met these standards, so to be governmentally mandated to recommend it is deeply disturbing. Consequently, our organizations, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Physicians for Reproductive Health, are speaking out against this reckless and dangerous intrusion into the practice of medicine.Simply put, evidence and science must guide the care that patients receive in any area of medicine. When political agendas get in the way of that, patients suffer. New theories and ideas emerge every day in medicine, but they must be proven by thorough clinical research. Only then do we recommend them as part of mainstream medical care. These laws are based on an untested theory, put forth by a single anti-choice doctor, without legitimate evidence of its efficacy. It is government-mandated experimentation on women and it is unethical.” (“New laws force doctors to lie to

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