Hippocratic Oath

A section of the oath that physicians take state “I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug” (“Bioethics”). Not every drug that physicians acquire…

Twenty One year old, Eric Oligario, had been in kidney failure for many years. He had been hooked up to a dialysis machine for many months when doctors told him that he was never going to get better. They made the decision to take him off of dialysis and let nature take it 's course. Eric’s mother watched her son suffer for about a week until he passed away. In his last week Eric said to his mother, quietly, “I just want to die. I just want to die.” His mother said that he wished he could take a…

Many of the health care industries today have codes of ethics that guide the behavior of the professional in the medical field. Ethics refers to standards that provide criteria for what is right or wrong. Ethics is shaped by individuals, society and nations. In the past we have had ethical dilemmas, which is a situation in which a person is faced with a decision to test these morals. These decisions have helped shaped the way informatics is structured in our modern day. As the name implies…

the intent to end their lives. Although terminally ill patients should fight for their lives, patients should have the right to die on their own terms. A passage written hundreds of years ago is set as the standard of medical practice. The Hippocratic Oath is a Greek…

to other practices from the same period: the Hippocratics and unaffiliated doctors. It starts with a short story about the mythical persona of Asclepius to showcase the perspective the people had about him then it continues to describe how this perspective helped forward the medical profession despite its gross inaccuracies and it ends with a discussion of the symbiotic relationship between the medical practices of Asclepius and those of the Hippocratics. The paper concludes that the cult of…

Medical Ethics There are certain moral standards to follow for everything, and the medical field is far from an exception. There are many things to consider as a doctor, and the largest thing is the fact that you’re taking responsibility for someone else’s life. This has led to much dissention throughout history as to how doctors should approach their jobs. Consider the possibility of your own personal beliefs regarding the practice of medicine not being correct. Also consider that there are…

The AMA’s position on physician participation in executions, which embodies the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath, is quite clear that “a physician, as a member of a profession dedicated to preserving life when there is hope of doing so, should not be a participant in a legally authorized execution. A physician participation at executions violates the basic tenet of the Hippocratic Oath and the position of the AMA, not to mention similar positions of other medical societies, physicians continue…

Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of, does allowing patients to die under a doctor’s care deem the death as murder. Some are convinced that it does, other maintain that allowing patients to do so in tern, breaks the Hippocratic Oath. Here in the states, we are very fortunate with every law and amendment that gives us the right to do with what we want with limits. Part of being a citizen is having the right to the freedom of…

drugs on their own, so the patients can kill ourselves with a uncertain right to choose other exit. This process is really disputable, but I think that it is not the best idea. Euthanasia should be banned because the act of killing violates the Hippocratic Oath, is not supported by most countries, and it involves physicians in directly causing death. First, euthanasia violates the main principles of the…

Everyone knows that a doctor has to take an oath before he or she is allowed to assist in helping people but not everyone knows exactly what the oath states. “Every American doctor must take this fundamental oath, which says, "first, do no harm". It threatens the very fabric of the entire medical field if doctors start using their own personal philosophies on life to decide who…