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 ...

Medicine requires a degree of trust unlike any other profession. Errors by airline pilots, bus drivers, engineers and car mechanics can kill as surely as errors by doctors. But medicine alone requires ...

"As the entering class of 2020, we start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud ...

A ceremony took place in the Asklepieion of Kos—the birthplace of Hippocrates—to administer the oath to outstanding new ...

(The Center Square) – After receiving a letter from a legal group, the University of Connecticut clarified that its medical school’s Hippocratic Oath – which pledges to promote social justice and ...

Medical examinations of prisoners -- both before and after interrogations -- were often skipped. In 2005, the Army's surgeon general found that 15 to 50 percent of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and ...

I have been a physician and teacher of ethics at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine for 24 years. During this time it has been a privilege to teach medical ethics to thousands of ...

A physician shall be dedicated to providing competent medical care, with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights. A physician shall uphold the standards of professionalism, be honest in ...