Many emails re the Hippocratic Oath, or rather re the gutting of same, of which this provides a neat summary:
The old oath was inconvenient to modern medicine and so has been rewritten variously in different med schools. For more information, look here, but the important finding runs as follows:
โAccording to a 1993 survey of 150 U.S. and Canadian medical schools, for
example, only 14 percent of modern oaths prohibit euthanasia, 11 percent
hold convenant with a deity, 8 percent foreswear abortion, and a mere 3
percent forbid sexual contact with patients โ all maxims held sacred in
the classical version.โ
Still intact after several millennia, the Hippocratic Oath has over the last couple of decades simply been tossed aside.






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