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- Title
I Swear by Apollo, the Hippocratic Oath is Obsolete.
- Authors
Thompson, Richard E.
- Abstract
This article points out flaws in Hippocratic Oath. The central theme of the Hippocratic Oath is that a physician must strive to do what he or she thinks is best for a patient. That basic premise is now under fire. The oath's fatal flaw is its requirement that a physician express caring and compassion by assuming an authoritarian role. According to Hippocrates, the ethical physician imposes his or her judgment on the patient, who is thereby presumed incapable of understanding and using information about disease and treatment choices. Today, that notion is definitely obsolete.
- Publication
Physician Executive, 2004, Vol 30, Issue 2, p60
- ISSN
0898-2759
- Publication type
Periodical