Doctors' Hippocratic Oath

Started by Flying Bomb, November 28, 2022, 06:14:10 AM

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Flying Bomb

Pity many Doctors don't follow para 4 and 7

 
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: 

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. 

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism . 

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug. 

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not", nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
 
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God. 

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
 
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure. 

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
 
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help. 

Michael Rolls

honoured more in the breach than in the observance fairly regularly nowadays, it would appear.
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Silver Tabby

Not sure if it is still compulsory to take the oath these days.

Ashy

if the gossip is true, euthanasia is now available to Canadian children who are depressed. On the other hand how many doctors believe in anything to swear to or by these days?

Diasi

Quote from: Ashy on November 28, 2022, 08:33:30 AMif the gossip is true, euthanasia is now available to Canadian children who are depressed. On the other hand how many doctors believe in anything to swear to or by these days?
It would appear to be slightly more than gossip.

https://bit.ly/3XAQCVz
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Scrumpy


Way back us kids would look in awe at the doctor.. My mum almost curtsied to him when he was called out to our home..
She would have been so proud if any of us kids became a medical practitioner ..
.. I too would have been proud had any of my children followed this profession ..
Alas.. not any more.. 
Don't ask me.. I know nuffink..

Michael Rolls

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Ashy

Quote from: Diasi on November 28, 2022, 08:44:35 AMIt would appear to be slightly more than gossip.

https://bit.ly/3XAQCVz
Thanks for the link. If ever I wanted to be wrong about something, this was it.
Canada, along with half the world, seems to have gone potty.

1955vintage

Just answer the bloody phone would be a good idea.
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