Fundamental principle of any health service

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"First, do no harm" is the most fundamental principle of any health service. No patient should be harmed in health care; but sometimes compelling evidence of a huge burden of avoidable patient harm globally across the developed and developing health care systems. In the medical assistant field, we have to make sure that while taking the blood pressure of the patient we don't over inflate the cuff because it could harm the patient and they would be uncomfortable.

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