Hyppocratic Oath - have they forgotten??

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Hy All,

I wonder if any doctor remembers the oath that they took on qualifying.

I printed out sentences that I thought appropriate and put the words in bold.

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I will PRESCRIBE REGIMENS FOR THE GOOD OF MY PATIENTS according to my ability

and my judgment and never to do harm to anyone.

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.

I will not be ashamed to say " I KNOW NOT " , nor will I fail to call in my

colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility

must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all,

I MUST NOW PLAY AT GOD.

I will remember that I DO NOT TREAT A FEVER CHART, a cancerous growth, BUT A

SICK HUMAN BEING, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic

stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care

adequately for the sick.