Some interesting points taken from the modern version of the Hippocratic Oath for doctors: 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 surgeons knife or the chemists 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 patients recovery. I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the persons family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. Read more : ehow/info_8208060_medical-oath-taken-doctors.html NB/The punctuation is that of the original article. C.C.W.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:39:01 +0000
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