Quote Originally Posted by Enoch the Red View Post
I don't see why. The Hippocratic oath doesn't say, "All this applies unless you have a personal relationship with the person." If a doctor wanted to not perform a female genital mutilation on a willing woman because it violated his or her moral or religious beliefs, you believe that doctor would be violating the Hippocratic oath?
Terrible example. Female genital mutilation is a crime. Any doctor who refused to perform it would be following the law and not violating the Hippocratic Oath.

The reason why the "don't treat family" principle doesn't violate the Oath is that it is in the round impartial. If we're both medics and this week a relative of yours comes in then I would be best placed to treat them rather than yourself, the following week if one of mine did then you can. Either way our relatives get the best treatment available.