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Most medical schools apply modern versions, most of which do not forbid abortion and are more secular than the original Greek oath. > As of 1993, only 14% of m
by throw101010 3y ago
Most medical schools apply modern versions, most of which do not forbid abortion and are more secular than the original Greek oath.
> As of 1993, only 14% of medical oaths prohibited euthanasia, and only 8% prohibited abortion
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Modern_versions_and_relevance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Modern_vers...
It is not rare to have people colloquially call these other forms of "the" oath many M.D. swear to the hippocratic oaths in my experience.