Hippocratic Oath

[Agathon]

I'm thinking of putting Sprayber on ignore because his avatar looks like it is staring at me.

[Agathon]

The original

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_classical.html

Probably a bad translation.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Agathon
I'm thinking of putting Sprayber on ignore because his avatar looks like it is staring at me.

I could put sunglasses on it.

[BeBMan]

I´d put you on ignore for that.

[Boris Godunov]

To me it seems to be looking disapprovingly at his own posts.

[Sprayber]

Just making sure none of the enemies of the American way sneak up and corrupt the truth and richousness of my wisdom.

[Boris Godunov]

Now he's glaring at the word "richousness"

[GePap]

Wow, so all doctors today violate the original, since doctors seem pretty willing to cut open thier patients...

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
To me it seems to be looking disapprovingly at his own posts.

Cured!

[Arrian]

Now he's glaring at the word "richousness"

Disapprovingly, even.

-Arrian

edit: damn, the spam is posts are flying fast.

[BeBMan]

Isn´t it the Hypocritical Oath?

[Sprayber]

I request that the mods change the title of this thread cause it isn't about the Hippocratic Oath anymore

[Boris Godunov]

Shush, they'll close it, and it's the best thread going as of now.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by GePap
Wow, so all doctors today violate the original, since doctors seem pretty willing to cut open thier patients...

If you had paid attention to the entire line "I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work", you would have seen that it was not saying such procedure was wrong, but that it was reserved by aggreement to another proffesion, the Surgeon (for long the Barber Surgen), whose functions would not merged with the Physician until modern times, mostly in the last 2 centuries (and which intergration is yet significantly incomplete). It was a gentelmens agreement not to compete.
You can see relics of the distinction yet in even the USA: my yellow pages list medical doctors until the category of Physicians and Surgeons. My mothers Cardiologist refered to her Cardiac Surgeon (better known higher priced in his specialty than the cardiologist was in his) as "just a plumber", ( for most of their hisotry surgeons were lower class than physicians and less educated than physicians.)
And by the way, there were university Doctorates in Divinity and Law before there were any in Medicine.

[GePap]

So surgeons do not take any version of the oath., I assume? And are not most surgeons doctors now a day?