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The Hippocratic oath puts forth specific stipulations with regard to conduct towards one's patients: those to whom you have a separately defined legal fiduciary duty. That duty exists when formed as a agreement by both parties (a guy shows up in your office or you're working the ED and they roll in, et c.). In non-emergent situations, it can be appropriate to refuse to establish that relationship (i.e. an outside hospital wishes to transfer a patient to you for reasons that are unnecessary or not in the best interest of the patient, though calling such a transfer an emergency legally requires one to accept the transfer).

None of those circumstances exist between your daughter and some guy who tries to rape and likely thereafter kill her. She should arm herself with a weapon and the proficiency in its use to prevent that and a whole host of other possible assaults without fear of violating any oath as a doctor or nurse.