The Hippocratic Oath

The exhausted doctors and nurses fighting the coronavirus are our best hope, unwavering in their sacred task to tend the sick and suffering, even as they put themselves in danger, says Lee Cowan.

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[robertodeleon-gonzalez]

Back in late Autumn, 2020, our Lodge of Elks made a major purchase of medical protective supplies. Gloves, gowns, hand sanitizer, alcohol, face masks... I reasoned we were at war with a microscopic enemy, a war we couldn't afford to lose. As we started handing out boxes of such supplies, I realized something: the doctors and nurses in the front trenches needed these as much as a soldier needs ammo - and we were doing our part to see that they had theirs.
My heart goes out to the brave medical personnel that fought this war, at times losing their lives, so others may live.

[karlshaner]

There is a medical practice in our small town that is now a members-only club. He is turning out the poor and elderly who have gone to the clinic for years.

[gamingrex]

POV: You're an American currently experiencing a heart attack.

[m.layfette]

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.

[moneymatters]

Perhaps you should expand your short documentary on the what, why, and who, changed from the original document?

[francismausley]

Much of modern medicine no longer respects Hippocrates. “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” "Medical science is only in its infancy, yet it has shown that our natural diet is that which grows out of the ground. The people will gradually develop up to the condition of this natural food." ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahai Faith

[seymorbytes]

My mother has been belittled and mistreated by doctors since puberty started and unveiled a whole host of issues my mother would have to deal with until the end of time, constantly called crazy or medicated for the wrong conditions all the while not being taken seriously as if it were possible to fake the frequent gut-wrenching pains. Self-advocacy and prevention over treatment were things I'd been taught since a young age, my mother never wanting me to go through what she had to. My mother is no longer with us, and the conditions which she suffered are still as of yet largely unresearched, still no cure and all treatments available are still only experimental. Sometimes I wonder if it could have been caught and effectively cared for if they'd only listened to her, yet I still don't know why; maybe it's because she had darker skin, maybe it's because she was a woman, maybe it's because she was young or the doctors she saw simply hadn't done their homework when the information finally started to come out, maybe they just hoped throwing pills at the problem would make her shut up. Whatever the reason, and years of seeing people denied healthcare or treated poorly because of race, ethnicity/immigration status, gender identification, biological sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, lack of insurance, religion/personal beliefs/lifestyle choices, or where the person was from; I have insurmountably high doubts the Hippocratic oath is even recited in hushed whispers anymore. I'm not even sure it's understood what that looks like anymore, to value the words of Hippocrates. To swear on the oath of another and then do the exact opposite of the oath you swore is no longer Hippocratic, it's hypocritical.

[SeaJay_Oceans]

The Eugenics Oath reads a little differently than the original Hippocratic Oath.
But the ends justify the means, according to the Eugenicists.

[hohenheimvsama]

How dare you insinuate that any situation is a valid reason to break an oath. you should adjust your message.

[chriszablocki]

Physicians have always needed to be held to a higher level of accountability.

[LondonPower]

Ὄμνυμι Ἀπόλλωνα ἰητρὸν, καὶ Ἀσκληπιὸν, καὶ Ὑγείαν, καὶ Πανάκειαν, καὶ θεοὺς πάντας τε καὶ πάσας, ἵστορας ποιεύμενος, ἐπιτελέα ποιήσειν κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμὴν ὅρκον τόνδε καὶ ξυγγραφὴν τήνδε.

Ἡγήσασθαι μὲν τὸν διδάξαντά με τὴν τέχνην ταύτην ἴσα γενέτῃσιν ἐμοῖσι, καὶ βίου κοινώσασθαι, καὶ χρεῶν χρηίζοντι μετάδοσιν ποιήσασθαι, καὶ γένος τὸ ἐξ ωὐτέου ἀδελφοῖς ἴσον ἐπικρινέειν ἄῤῥεσι, καὶ διδάξειν τὴν τέχνην ταύτην, ἢν χρηίζωσι μανθάνειν, ἄνευ μισθοῦ καὶ ξυγγραφῆς, παραγγελίης τε καὶ ἀκροήσιος καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς ἁπάσης μαθήσιος μετάδοσιν ποιήσασθαι υἱοῖσί τε ἐμοῖσι, καὶ τοῖσι τοῦ ἐμὲ διδάξαντος, καὶ μαθηταῖσι συγγεγραμμένοισί τε καὶ ὡρκισμένοις νόμῳ ἰητρικῷ, ἄλλῳ δὲ οὐδενί.

Διαιτήμασί τε χρήσομαι ἐπ’ ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμὴν, ἐπὶ δηλήσει δὲ καὶ ἀδικίῃ εἴρξειν.

Οὐ δώσω δὲ οὐδὲ φάρμακον οὐδενὶ αἰτηθεὶς θανάσιμον, οὐδὲ ὑφηγήσομαι ξυμβουλίην τοιήνδε. Ὁμοίως δὲ οὐδὲ γυναικὶ πεσσὸν φθόριον δώσω. Ἁγνῶς δὲ καὶ ὁσίως διατηρήσω βίον τὸν ἐμὸν καὶ τέχνην τὴν ἐμήν.

Οὐ τεμέω δὲ οὐδὲ μὴν λιθιῶντας, ἐκχωρήσω δὲ ἐργάτῃσιν ἀνδράσι πρήξιος τῆσδε.

Ἐς οἰκίας δὲ ὁκόσας ἂν ἐσίω, ἐσελεύσομαι ἐπ’ ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων, ἐκτὸς ἐὼν πάσης ἀδικίης ἑκουσίης καὶ φθορίης, τῆς τε ἄλλης καὶ ἀφροδισίων ἔργων ἐπί τε γυναικείων σωμάτων καὶ ἀνδρῴων, ἐλευθέρων τε καὶ δούλων.

Ἃ δ’ ἂν ἐν θεραπείῃ ἢ ἴδω, ἢ ἀκούσω, ἢ καὶ ἄνευ θεραπηίης κατὰ βίον ἀνθρώπων, ἃ μὴ χρή ποτε ἐκλαλέεσθαι ἔξω, σιγήσομαι, ἄῤῥητα ἡγεύμενος εἶναι τὰ τοιαῦτα.

Ὅρκον μὲν οὖν μοι τόνδε ἐπιτελέα ποιέοντι, καὶ μὴ ξυγχέοντι, εἴη ἐπαύρασθαι καὶ βίου καὶ τέχνης δοξαζομένῳ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐς τὸν αἰεὶ χρόνον. παραβαίνοντι δὲ καὶ ἐπιορκοῦντι, τἀναντία τουτέων.

[minedoimperija]

Can this reporter talk normally without raising his voice every second?

[rudestbeast]

there is no swear to the oath, you either have good insurance or you get scheduled in 8 months for "more tests"

[johnnysun]

I will share the privacy of my patients, for their problems are of course disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with clumsiness in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, I will not do it. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with absolutely no humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must make god mad.

[SoCoolScience]

"...and I will do no harm or injustice to them. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody, nor will I suggest such a coarse..."

Americas healthcare system oath
"I will only save the wealthy, even though this is an injustice and I will administer healthy fines upon those who can not pay, setting a coarse which ends with a legal suit for which I will atrociously win."

[douglaspinsak]

“and I will do no harm or injustice to them. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course.”

I think administering something that causes myocarditis, strokes, blood clots, and autoimmune disorders violates this portion of the oath.

[blueraccoon]

I've heard a representative of this in transformers rescue bots academy medix would help anyone regardless the alliance they are in

[burnedbreadrice]

...] then.. when the patient woke up, his SKELETON was missing and the doctor was never heard from AGAIN!


anyway, that's how I lost my medical license....

[Growingwiser]

A part of the original hypocritical oath reads like this:
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if
asked, nor suggest any such counsel;
and in like manner I will not give a
woman a pessary to produce
abortion.
How far our morality has fallen. How can we excuse such depravity when people are depraved by nature.

[yaraviera]

I saw a movie called John q. By denzel Washington. Where his son is dying because no insurance or because of his color or economy status