The Hippocratic Oath: The Original and Revised Version
https://doctors.practo.com/the-hippocratic-oath-the-original-and-revised-version/
The Oath was rewritten in 1964 by Dr. Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean at Tufts University School of Medicine and this revised form is widely accepted in today’s medical schools. The modern or revised version of Hippocratic Oath is:The Revised Hippocratic Oath
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For some reason my mind had me also to look up the oath just other day, the same page as this one. It is disheartening to see the changes and honestly I found it sad to read. No first do no harm was very important imo. Its not there anymore. There’s an agenda behind it the change Im sure.
for those who see the words run off the side and can’t access them, I reformatted this post’s text here;
“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.”
thanks for pointing that out…Word press normally properly formats text… but I was multi-tasking when I was posting this and unfortunately – nothing in life is guaranteed … I have reformatted the original text… I finally got it fixed… Word Press is SCREWING WITH ME
Thanks. I move around lots of texts from articles, etc. and often the formatting does not follow them. I use a very, very old text editor that has the rare ability to straighten texts out, “Programmer’s File Editor” (PFE).
How convenient. I measure the harm done in doctors offices and surgeries today to be much more than much less.
Oh please, what the hell is this??? The way I read it, it’s all about the doctor and to hell with the patient!
Why did it change? What was wrong with the ORIGINAL oath by Hippocrates???