Hippocratic Oath

He was born in approximately 460 BCE into a family full of physicians. He is known as “The Father of Medicine.” He is also probably the most well-known for the Hippocratic oath, something doctors today have to take before they can begin practicing medicine. It’s incredible that someone who lived so long ago, thousands of years before us, is still so prominent, not just in theories and practices, but his actual name…

The Hippocratic Oath is one of the longest standing documents that is still used today. The original oath was drafted in late Fifth Century BCE. It requires new physicians to swear on many healing gods to uphold all ethical standards. However, over the last 1,000 plus years, the oath has been revised. Redrafted in 1964 the modern version states, “I will remember that there is art to medicine…

disclosed to a third party.” - Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. Similarly, privacy is the act of keeping a patients information out of public view. Confidentiality and privacy date all the way back to classical Greece when the hippocratic oath was created.…

We live in a world in which medicine continues to evolve leading to an increase in average lifespan, so why would anyone want to cut their time short? Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is a fairly new concept in medicine, it “Occurs when a physician facilitates a patient’s death by providing the necessary means and/or information to enable the patient to perform the life ending act” (Physician Assisted Suicide, 1995). Due to the nature of the act, there have been major ethical and social issues…

was called the Hippocratic Oath. The oath was written by which the pupil would swear by Apollo, Asclepius and many other gods and goddesses to follow the ethical and moral code taught by Hippocrates, and should he break the code the gods would punish him. It has been translated and tweaked to fit into other society’s views upon medical practices, including those in our modern medical schools and hospitals12. While it is not required for a graduating medical student to take the oath, many…

According to Phillip Nitschke, author and founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International, “Does not doing harm mean that we should prolong a life that the patient sees as a painful burden? Surely, the ‘harm’ in this instance is done when we prolong the life, and ‘doing no harm’ means that we should help the patient die” (“The Argument For Assisted Suicide” 2). Euthanasia is one of the most debatable topics in the United States. Assisted suicide imposes many questions…

natural world and not a spiritual one, and “This approach is widely accepted even today…” (Kleisiaris et. al). Such a monumental movement towards the accelerating world of medicine all started with Hippocrates. This philosopher and his school, Hippocratic School of Medicine, developed medical terms and definitions. They then defined protocols and guidelines for the classification of diseases (Kleisiaris et. al. and MNT Staff). Those methods, terms, and definitions “are considered the gold…

ailment affecting the person. He started up his own school of medicine called the Hippocratic…

A common moral argument against Physician Assisted Suicide is that it disobeys the Hippocratic Oath: the set of moral guidelines for any doctor or administrator of medicine. The section which is specifically referenced by such opponents is “Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course” (INSERT CITATION). However, the Hippocratic Oath (the original version, in particular) fails to provide an effective basis for opposing PAS because…

Answer Selected Answer: Ethical preferences originate from an individual’s own critical consciousness. Correct Answer: Ethical preferences originate from an individual’s own critical consciousness. Question 5 4 out of 4 points Correct Which of the following statements is INCORRECT regarding the rights of shareholders? I. voting power on major issues and ownership in a portion of the company II. right to…