Here’s what you should note: 1. Thirty-nine percent of physicians under age 34 said the Hippocratic Oath was very meaningful, compared to less than 70 percent of physicians aged 65 and older. 2. Among ...

If Hippocrates had to deal with physician burnout, he never mentioned it. After its latest updates, however, the World Medical Association’s modern successor to the Hippocratic Oath now addresses ...

People generally seek to make decisions in a manner consistent with their personal philosophy and the normative values of their social group. Although most want to make the "correct" choice, the ...

Responses to a Medscape poll on physician beliefs about the Hippocratic Oath show that thoughts about the power of the oath and even whether physicians have taken it differ strikingly between the ...

Should the Hippocratic Oath continue to set the ethical standard of patient care for today's physicians, or is the oath an anachronism that ought to be retired? Many doctors disagree on the answer.

Those four words, and the Hippocratic oath of which they are a part, have served as an ethical guide for medical practitioners for centuries. While the oath itself has evolved over the years — a more ...

The Hippocratic oath, a roughly 2,000-year-old text with only marginal relevance to medicine today, continues to have an outsize influence on us. The oath’s language and many of its concepts are more ...