"It's called The Hippocratic Oath and forms the basis of the moral obligations of registration. Benevolence has nothing to do with it. It is a professional obligation."

Spot on Musket, and it's the reason why US Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals treated patients, friend or foe, based on clinical need.

It's what good Western doctors do, regardless of how the other side may act.

So if we are expected to issue pats on the back for Israeli doctors, fine and fair.

This has no relationship to our feelings about the government responsible for those Arab patients needing the services of those doctors.