Swearing off the Oath?

Who Wrote the Hippocratic Oath

Oath of Hippocrates

The Hippocratic Oath in Halakhah

Hippocrates, often considered the father of Western medicine, lived in ancient Greece shortly after the building of the Second Temple. Despite his numerous contributions to academic and clinical medicine, Hippocrates is likely best known to modern students of medicine through the Hippocratic Oath, a text attributed to Hippocrates and traditionally administered to students shortly before their g...

Hippocrates' Oath is challenged.

Dutch medical oath.

In the first part of this article, the booklet Dutch Medical Oath is reviewed. The content of the new oath is discussed as are the reasons for revision of the previous version of the oath. This is followed by a short history of the oath. In the second part of the article the oath is compared with the seven competencies of a medical specialist. The new oath contains elements of six of these seve...