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Kuciwalker
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of Schmooism
Feb 2001
time: 00:33
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I'm wondering what exactly is the wording of the Hippocratic Oath that doctors take. According to a book we got in Humanities about the history of philosophy (Sophie's World) it's this:
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I will follow that system or regimen which, according to my ability and judgement, I consider to be for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deletrious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked nor suggest any such counsel, and in like manner I will not give to a woman the means to produce an abortion. Whenever I go into a house, I will go fro the benefit of the sick and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption, and further, from the seduction of females or males, whether freemen of slaves. Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, I see or hear which ought not to be spoken abroad, I will keep secret. So long as I continue to carry out this oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men in all times, but should I violate this oath, may the reverse be my lot. |
(the bolded part is what makes me think they must use a different version)
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Lefty Scaevola
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San Antonio TX USA
Oct 2000
time: 23:33
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Originally posted by GePap
Wow, so all doctors today violate the original, since doctors seem pretty willing to cut open thier patients... |
If you had paid attention to the entire line "I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work", you would have seen that it was not saying such procedure was wrong, but that it was reserved by aggreement to another proffesion, the Surgeon (for long the Barber Surgen), whose functions would not merged with the Physician until modern times, mostly in the last 2 centuries (and which intergration is yet significantly incomplete). It was a gentelmens agreement not to compete.
You can see relics of the distinction yet in even the USA: my yellow pages list medical doctors until the category of Physicians and Surgeons. My mothers Cardiologist refered to her Cardiac Surgeon (better known higher priced in his specialty than the cardiologist was in his) as "just a plumber", ( for most of their hisotry surgeons were lower class than physicians and less educated than physicians.)
And by the way, there were university Doctorates in Divinity and Law before there were any in Medicine.
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