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  2. Primum non nocere - Wikipedia

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    The phrase is sometimes recorded as primum nil nocere. [1] [better source needed] Non-maleficence, which is derived from the maxim, is one of the principal precepts of bioethics that all students in healthcare are taught in school and is a fundamental principle throughout the world. Another way to state it is that, "given an existing problem ...

  3. Hippocratic Oath - Wikipedia

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    It is often said that "First do no harm" (Latin: Primum non nocere) is a part of the original Hippocratic oath. A related phrase is found in Epidemics, Book I, of the Hippocratic school: "Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient". [7]

  4. Medical ethics - Wikipedia

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    The concept of non-maleficence is embodied by the phrase, "first, do no harm," or the Latin, primum non nocere. Many consider that should be the main or primary consideration (hence primum): that it is more important not to harm your patient, than to do them good, which is part of the Hippocratic oath that doctors take. [46]

  5. Vis medicatrix naturae - Wikipedia

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    Vis medicatrix naturae (literally "the healing power of nature", and also known as natura medica) is the Latin rendering of the Greek Νόσων φύσεις ἰητροί ("Nature is the physician(s) of diseases"), a phrase attributed to Hippocrates.

  6. List of Latin phrases (P) - Wikipedia

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    primum movens: prime mover: Or "first moving one". A common theological term, such as in the cosmological argument, based on the assumption that God was the first entity to "move" or "cause" anything. Aristotle was one of the first philosophers to discuss the "uncaused cause", a hypothetical originator—and violator—of causality. primum non ...

  7. Beneficence (ethics) - Wikipedia

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    one should not practice evil or do harm, often stated in Latin as Primum non nocere; one should prevent evil or harm; one should remove evil or harm; one should practice good; Ordinary moral discourse and most philosophical systems state that a prohibition on doing harm to others as in #1 is more compelling than any duty to benefit others as in ...

  8. How Democrats Are Faring In First Tests Of The Trump Backlash

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    Notes: Precinct data not yet available for Connecticut districts. Some Virginia voting districts are split, meaning that some precincts fall in two districts. The full precinct is counted here in the general election results when part of the precinct falls within the district because they are not further broken down.

  9. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    [5] Since then, the directive primum non nocere ("first do no harm") has become a central tenet for contemporary medicine. However, despite an increasing emphasis on the scientific basis of medical practice in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century, data on adverse outcomes were hard to come by and the various studies ...