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"Ethical Centralization of High-risk Surgery Requires Racial and Economic Justice Medicine is at its core a moral pursuit driven largely by the duty to do good and avoid harm. This promise is contained in the Hippocratic Oath, which every physician in some form professes. For surgeons, this duty has motivated research into how to provide patients with the highest-quality surgical care so as to assure the best outcomes (do good), and reduce deaths and complications (avoid harm)."

Charles Binkley, director of Bioethics and David S. Kemp, professor of legal writing, UC Berkeley School of Law published in Annals of Surgery