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Who was Dr. Benjamin Rush?
Dr. Rush was a leading doctor in the American founding era and one of five physician signers of the Declaration of Independence. He believed in medicine as a profession and that America’s founding principles of freedom complemented and protected the patient-doctor relationship.
According to Dr. Rush and the Founders, government doesn’t bestow human rights. Rather, it is government’s duty to protect natural human rights. In order to secure the blessings of liberty—which includes doctors’ ability to treat their patients without stifling regulation—government must be limited and operate similarly to medicine’s guiding principle:
First, do no harm.
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