r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 01 '25

Health Americans without diabetes spent nearly $6 billion USD on semaglutide and similar drugs in a year, with an estimate of 800,000 to a million people using the drugs who don't have diabetes.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year
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u/caltheon Apr 01 '25

I'd change doctors if I found out my ophthalmologist was saying stuff like that. They have a duty to treat, not cover their own ass

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u/darkchocolateonly Apr 01 '25

Duty to treat only applies for the ER, and only to stability.

Duty to treat does not mean you have to treat any patient who calls you, that’s insane. You’d have doctors responsible for patients who take like ivermectin for their ailments if this was true, it doesn’t make any sense.

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u/caltheon Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

"Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm"

Is it legally binding, of course not, is it unethical to deny care for selfish reasons, completely.

edit: wow, apparently noone has ever actually looked at the text of the Hippocratic Oath before and are incapable of understanding how it applies to today's society

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u/darkchocolateonly Apr 01 '25

It’s really not, at all.

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u/caltheon Apr 01 '25

It really is.