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An old oath becomes bad medicine
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The Hippocratic oath, uttered for decades by new doctors at
medical school graduation rites, is nearing extinction because it is
outdated, at odds with some modern medical practices and, it seems,
politically incorrect.
The oath, attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates sometime
around the 4th century BC, is being shunned in favor of alternative
oaths at virtually all major medical schools in the Boston area, and
increasingly nationwide.
There is no quibble with the oath's p...
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An old oath becomes bad medicine
The Boston Globe
; The Hippocratic oath, uttered for decades by new doctors at medical school graduation rites, is nearing extinction because it is outdated, at odds with some modern medical practices and, it seems, politically incorrect. The oath, attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates sometime around the 4th
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UNDER OATH; The Ancient Hippocratic Ethic and Today's Doctors
The Washington Post
; Every spring, at medical schools around the country, thousands of novice physicians are asked to stand and recite an oath. Most often the pledge takes its name if not its wording from a Greek physician who practiced and taught more than 24 centuries ago. Is an ancient g.p. named Hippocrates
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Doctors to operate on the Hippocratic oath
The Independent - London
; If you notice a subtle change in your doctor's behaviour in future, the explanation is simple. The British Medical Association has been updating the Hippocratic Oath - the doctors' 2,500- year-old ethical code. Although there will be those who think that tampering with the oath, which was derived
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'Do no harm,' scientists are told.(Features)(Ideas)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Bill Joy has an interesting idea. The Sun Microsystems chief scientist wants all scientists to take something like the Hippocratic Oath (the pledge doctors make to never use their skills harmfully) to protect humanity from the adverse effects of technology. That way, he suggested at a recent
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The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates (Revised Ed.)
Ethics & Medicine
; The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates (Revised Ed.) Nigel M. de S. Cameron Highland Park, IL: The Bioethics Press, 2001 ISBN 0-89107-645-X. 187 pp., paperback, $17.95 At a recent bioethics seminar, I may have unknowingly picked up the last remaining copy of the previous printing of The
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Doctor Examines Evolution of Hippocratic Oath
All Things Considered (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 Dr. Paul McHugh says the 2,400-yaer-old Hippocratic oath has changed over time, and he believes generally the oath has changed its focus to the self-interest of doctors rather than to the benefit of the sick. ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: This is All Things Considered; I'm Robert Siegel. NOAH
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Dr Miriam: WHAT'S THE OATH DOCTORS SWEAR BY?(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: Miriam Stoppard WE'VE all heard of the Hippocratic oath which doctors swear to. But what is it? I SWORE to the Hippocratic oath myself and we tend to think of it as something carved in stone - a cross between the American Declaration of Independence and the Lord's Prayer. But historians
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On the Hippocratic Sources of Western Medical Practice.(Chinese-American Conference on Medical Ethics in Practice, Teaching, and Research: May 1999, Beijing)
The Hastings Center Report
; One of the key figures in Western medicine is the fourth century Greek physician, Hippocrates. The Hippocratic Oath binds new physicians to the ethos and profession of medicine, while the Western tradition of scientific medicine traces its roots to the Hippocratic corpus. We will not attempt an
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Letter: The oath doctors don't take
The Independent - London
; Sir: The Hippocratic Oath (letters, 2 April) is well known among doctors, and a copy hangs on the wall of the medical school where I graduated in the 1950s. But I was never asked to take the oath, and suspect that this is true of many and possibly most other doctors in this country. More important,
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It's Greek to me.(LETTERS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Michelle Malkin writes, The Hippocratic oath states clearly: 'I will maintain the utmost respect for every human life from fertilization to natural death and reject abortion that deliberately takes a unique human life' ( Medical specialty in retreat, Commentary, June
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