I mean it says I will not cut for stone and you know... Stone surgery

Jun 24, 2022
8:16:56pm

chrisoc13 All-American

Is like half of what I do.

It's a little funny how lay people seem to think the Hippocratic oath is some special holy oath doctors take. It's just a tradition to recite it. Nothing more. And it's horribly out of date.

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Is this paragraph still part of the Hippocratic Oath?

StarMan

6/24/22 7:34pm

My med school had us recite a very different, "modernized" oath.

Richardo

6/24/22 7:37pm

Was it more like “we are not biologists so we don’t know…”

panacablue

6/24/22 7:38pm

Thanks, I realized the Wikipedia article was likely the "original" oath and was

StarMan

6/24/22 7:40pm

Here's the current oath they say at my medical school. I think it's about the

Richardo

6/24/22 7:47pm

We also don’t swear by Apollo, as in the original.

valleus

6/24/22 7:56pm

Kind of a shame, really. They'd should double blind some different oaths

ryebrye

6/24/22 8:15pm

It’s changed A LOT from the original

Slim

6/24/22 8:10pm

I mean it says I will not cut for stone and you know... Stone surgery

chrisoc13

6/24/22 8:16pm

So that explains why some doctors are fully comfortable ripping apart a fetus

StarMan

6/24/22 8:21pm

RE: So that explains why some doctors are fully comfortable ripping apart a

panacablue

6/24/22 8:30pm

No that doesn’t explain it. As chrisoc13 said above the Hippocratic oath isn’t want non-docs seem to think it is. It’s

Slim

6/24/22 8:37pm

You read it one time as part of tradition. I couldn't tell you which one we even

chrisoc13

6/24/22 8:47pm

Generally I agree except for the killing babies part.. ya there’s no

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