Medicine requires a degree of trust unlike any other profession. Errors by airline pilots, bus drivers, engineers and car mechanics can kill as surely as errors by doctors. But medicine alone requires ...

The ritual of taking an oath upon graduating from medical school is, with a few exceptions, a routine requirement for graduation. Albeit that many students believe that they have taken the Hippocratic ...

All physicians take the Hippocratic Oath, swearing to fulfill their duty to their patients. And many prospective medical students look forward to the day they take this oath and become physicians. But ...

Medicine requires a degree of trust unlike any other profession. Errors by airline pilots, bus drivers, engineers and car mechanics can kill as surely as errors by doctors. But medicine alone requires ...

We’ve all heard the calls to declare racism a public health crisis. Well, a group of medical students in Pittsburgh, Pa., have taken things a step further and rewritten the Hippocratic Oath to include ...

Weill Medical College at Cornell University has rewritten the Hippocratic Oath – the vow for newly trained doctors that’s been around for more than 2,500 years. The oath has been rewritten before, and ...

"As the entering class of 2020, we start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud ...

Medical examinations of prisoners -- both before and after interrogations -- were often skipped. In 2005, the Army's surgeon general found that 15 to 50 percent of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and ...

I have been a physician and teacher of ethics at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine for 24 years. During this time it has been a privilege to teach medical ethics to thousands of ...

A physician shall be dedicated to providing competent medical care, with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights. A physician shall uphold the standards of professionalism, be honest in ...