Talk:Primum non nocere

message: Anyone else think this should just redirect to Hippocratic oath? — No-One Jones (talk) 15:44, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. And since Hippocrates wrote in Greek, isn't a Latin tag for an entry heading just a little pretentious? Besides, encyclopedia entries are reports not essays. Wetman 15:47, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Directors, Redirectors, please write under this line !

message: What on earth is this?  I thought I understood primum non nocere but this article gives me a headache.  Can anyone explain it to me, and help me understand how to turn it into a more focused article? Jwrosenzweig 05:44, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: -Rholton (aka Anthropos) 16:22, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: What is this?

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: I believe the language of this section may make it hard for some readers to understand. Such terms as amelioration and palliation, while perhaps common in medical texts, may not be understood by the average reader. Concise definitions of words that necessary but may not be understood should be given in parenthesis, while such words which are not strictly necessary should be substituted with more widely understood terminology. I would have tagged the section, but I couldn't find a relevant template. --Muna (talk) 18:25, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primum succurrere 

message: I'd be interested in including a section for "Conflicts and controversies", outlining when medical patients, as customers, want a service that is frequently defined as harmful (i.e, euthanasia, certain other types of unnecessary cosmetic surgery, including circumcision, etc.). It may be opening a can of worms, so the section might struggle with neutrality issues. Is anyone aware of a good, well-referenced public domain text? samwaltz (talk) 21:43, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: New section: Conflicts and controversies

message: a comparison with ahimsa may be useful.
--Elvenmuse (talk) 04:16, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ahimsa 

message: To be pedantic, "primum non nocere" can't be construed as "first, do no harm", though it's almost always rendered into English that way. It's not terribly good Latin; but for what it's worth, it means rather "The first (thing) (is) not to do harm."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.86.191.17 (talk) 15:49, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pedantry 

message: Google Books has an earlier use of the Latin phrase in an 1834 Spanish translation of De Lattier de Laroche's Curación de la Catarata sin Operación Quirúrgica: "El baron Boyer en su tratado de enfermedades quirúrgicas dice: '... Operando muy pronbto se cae en contradiccion con el principio del arte primum non nocere.'" ("Baron Boyer, in his treatise on surgical diseases says : '... Operating quickly contradicts the principle of art primum non nocere.'")  It also shows up in an 1841 German homeopathic journal, Hygea. Evank (talk) 15:26, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earlier Source