All physicians take the Hippocratic Oath, swearing to fulfill their duty to their patients. And many prospective medical students look forward to the day they take this oath and become physicians. But ...

On Oaths in General and Medical Oaths and Codes, in Particular An oath is a public statement or promise to behave or not to behave in certain ways. It is sworn by some thing or things that are ...

A group of students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine started a new tradition by creating a more inclusive Hippocratic oath to acknowledge racism, the coronavirus pandemic and the ...

As they don their white coats for the first time, a new crop of medical students nationwide is taking an oath — but it may not be the one you think. The Hippocratic oath has been out of fashion for a ...

Those who labored through eighth-grade English may remember the lesson on “denotation” and “connotation,” or, more poetically, “literal meaning” versus “shades of meaning.” There is no word as ...

We’ve all heard the calls to declare racism a public health crisis. Well, a group of medical students in Pittsburgh, Pa., have taken things a step further and rewritten the Hippocratic Oath to include ...

A group of medical students at the University of Pittsburgh wrote their own version of the Hippocratic oath which acknowledges system racism in medicine, the coronavirus pandemic and several high ...

In his famous oath that many doctors still swear to, Hippocrates covered many of the basics of medical ethics: from “I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel” ...

The ritual of taking an oath upon graduating from medical school is, with a few exceptions, a routine requirement for graduation. Albeit that many students believe that they have taken the Hippocratic ...