By Michael Cook Big Stock Photo Over the centuries the Hippocratic Oath has expressed the ideals of the medical profession, although nowadays other versions have supplanted it for graduating medical students– if they take any oath at all. If taken literally the Oath...
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“Do no harm” medicine is fast becoming extinct
By Wesley J. Smith The Hippocratic Oath is dead. “Do no harm” medicine is fast becoming extinct. Contemporary health care is increasingly under the sway of a utilitarian bioethics that makes the elimination of suffering the prime directive—to the detriment of...
The War on the Hippocratic Oath
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This is excerpted from an essay that appeared at First Things. I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody...
World Medical Association updates Hippocratic Oath
Is the value of human life slowly being eroded? By Michael Cook A modern successor to the Hippocratic Oath has been approved by the World Medical Association. This is the first revision in a decade and reflects changes in the climate of medical ethics. The current...
Contemporary Medical Oaths Exert Little Professional Pull on New Doctors
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This appears on Wesley’s excellent blog at http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/04/09/contemporary-medical-oaths-exert-little-professional-pull-on-new-doctors/ Several years ago, I wrote about the woeful decline in...