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.

As they don their white coats for the first time, a new crop of medical students nationwide is taking an oath — but it may not be the one you think. The Hippocratic oath has been out of fashion for a ...

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 ...

A poll conducted by Medscape shows the popularity of the Hippocratic Oath, an optional vow to uphold certain ethical standards, is waning in favor of alternative oaths, or no oath at all. Medscape has ...

The 2,500-year-old Hippocratic Oath, one of the most enduring documents in the history of medicine, has recently been revised to more appropriately reflect contemporary thinking. Since its inception, ...

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 ...

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 ...

On their way to becoming doctors, medical students recite the Hippocratic Oath. The most famous passage of the oath is commonly translated as “do no harm.” The Hippocratic Oath was developed as a way ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." We give a nod ...

The historic COVID-19 pandemic has brought us to a critical point. Pillars of our advanced society — hospitals, schools, businesses — have been severely stressed or on the cusp of failure. As both ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Each year the crowd grows. Graduating medical students at the University of Michigan are coming to the Hippocratic Oath Banquet sponsored by three Christian medical organizations.