Should the Hippocratic Oath continue to set the ethical standard of patient care for today's physicians, or is the oath an anachronism that ought to be retired? Many doctors disagree on the answer.

The Hippocratic oath, a roughly 2,000-year-old text with only marginal relevance to medicine today, continues to have an outsize influence on us. The oath’s language and many of its concepts are more ...

Physicians of varying ages may have different values of the Hippocratic Oath, with some even saying the oath is “sadly irrelevant,” according to Medscape. 1. Thirty-nine percent of physicians under ...

A poll conducted by Medscape shows the popularity of the Hippocratic Oath, an optional vow to uphold certain ethical standards, is waning in favor of alternative oaths, or no oath at all. Medscape has ...

Those four words, and the Hippocratic oath of which they are a part, have served as an ethical guide for medical practitioners for centuries. While the oath itself has evolved over the years — a more ...

The Hippocratic oath has gotten a refresh. This spring, nearly 20,000 medical students will graduate from medical schools across the country and will likely be asked to raise their hands for a new ...

As FierceHealthcare reported yesterday, some teaching hospitals want the Hippocratic oath to require physicians to abstain from inflicting financial harm on patients and the overall healthcare system.

Columbia University received backlash online after a resurfaced video showed medical students reciting a revised version of the Hippocratic Oath that included tenets of critical race theory. The video ...

The oath was inspired by COVID-19 and police-involved deaths of Black Americans. A group of medical students are hoping to spark change by tackling deeply-rooted racial disparities in the health ...

At the University of Pittsburgh, new medical students recited an alternative oath, drawing on current events and recent political turmoil to... First-year medical student Sean Sweat "didn't want to ...

As first-year medical students prepare for their white coat ceremony, BUNDLE OF HERS discusses and dissects the Hippocratic Oath. This content was originally produced for audio. Certain elements such ...

Can 158 words give the banking industry a moral core? That’s the question that the Netherlands will attempt to answer next year when it implements a requirement that its private bankers (all 90,000 of ...