There's a famous phrase in medicine.

First, do no harm.

It's widely seen as the centerpiece of the Hippocratic Oath,

having found ubiquity with physicians, patients, and pop culture.

For example, here's Benedict Cumberbats citing it as superhero Dr. Strange.

It is Dr. Strange, not Master Strange, not Mr. Strange, Dr. Strange. When I became a doctor,

I swore an oath to do no harm, and I have just killed a man. I'm not doing that again.

The common understanding, then, is that it's the first duty of physicians to avoid doing harm or injury to their patients.

What's less known is that this famous phrase does not stand on an island.

And indeed, it's not solely one phrase.

A first phrase from the oath roughly translates to English as,

I will do no harm or injustice to my patience.

And a second phrase from the oath translates to English as,

I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm.

And as with attorneys and their clients, a doctor's duties to avoid doing harm, injustice, and wrongdoing don't end when the doctor is done with the patient.

Instead, the Hippocratic School gave great importance to a clinical doctrine dictated that physicians

recorded their findings and medicinal methods in a very clear and objective manner.

These records may be passed down and employed by other physicians.

So, did the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Adriana Hutto in the Amanda Lewis case

followed the teaching of Hippocrates?

Or, did he engage in wrongdoing that caused harm, injustice, and an inability for future

physicians to make sense of the work he had or had not done?

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