Texas Doc Ready To Violate Hippocratic Oath

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The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It
is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form,
it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold
specific ethical standards.

The oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the Western world,
establishing several principles of medical ethics which remain of paramount
significance today.

These include the principles of medical confidentiality and non-maleficence. As
the seminal articulation of certain principles that continue to guide and
inform medical practice, the ancient text is of more than historic and symbolic
value.

Swearing a modified form of the oath remains a rite of passage for medical
graduates in many countries, and is a requirement enshrined in legal statutes
of various jurisdictions, such that violations of the oath may carry criminal
or other liability beyond the oath's symbolic nature.

The original oath was written in Ionic Greek, between the fifth and third
centuries BC. Although it is traditionally attributed to the Greek doctor
Hippocrates and it is usually included in the Hippocratic Corpus, most modern
scholars do not regard it as having been written by Hippocrates himself.

"First do no harm"

It is often said that the exact phrase "First do no harm" (Latin: Primum non
nocere) is a part of the original Hippocratic oath. Although the phrase does
not appear in the AD 245 version of the oath, similar intentions are vowed by,

"I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm".

(like killing the unborn?)

The phrase primum non nocere is believed to date from the 17th century.

Another equivalent phrase is found in Epidemics, Book I, of the Hippocratic
school: "Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do
not harm the patient".

The exact phrase is believed to have originated with the 19th-century English
surgeon Thomas Inman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

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