hippocratic oath in English

noun
1
an oath stating the obligations and proper conduct of doctors, formerly taken by those beginning medical practice. Parts of the oath are still used in most medical schools.
This may sound odd if your vision of medical ethics is the application to medicine of the Hippocratic oath .

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1. Avicenna is one of the world's most famous medics and many have named him "the father of modern medicine" - an honor he shares with Hippocrates, the Greek doctor that penned the Hippocratic oath.

2. Though moral Axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance

3. Asclepius' influence on modern medicine remains visible to this day, immortalized in the first sentence of the Hippocratic oath, a Greek medical text written in the 3rd-century bc., that references Asclepius and his daughters Hygieia ( she was the goddess of health, cleanliness, and hygiene) and Panacea ( the goddess of universal remedy.) "I swear by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Hygieia