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Doctor here. Never took the Hipp Oath and there's absolutely nothing binding about it. Regardless, most medical schools in the US are using the Declaration of
by cmondude 10y ago
Doctor here. Never took the Hipp Oath and there's absolutely nothing binding about it. Regardless, most medical schools in the US are using the Declaration of Geneva in place of the Hippocratic Oath, since the former is more reasonable. Also not binding in any way.
Here's the philosophy I follow: do the best I can for the person in the bed and his/her family.
- _Codemonkeyism 10y agoYes that was the reason I wrote 'adhere' not take - and it's interesting that this fact is not widely known in the public (probably due to TV dramas). The best thing about the Hippocratic Oath as a social construct is it makes everyone trust doctors (still rank high in every survey on trust) while doctors are just the same as everyone else. So the cynic in me thinks this is the reason so many people push for something similar in IT.