Technological professionals are the first, and last, lines of defense against the misuse of technology. Nobody else understands the systems as well, and nobody else is in a position to protect ...

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 ...

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 ...

A binding agreement, as much a social contract as Social Security or Medicare, the traditional Hippocratic Oath holds those who swear to it to a strict code of professional and personal conduct.

Even in the information age, the answer to healthcare privacy might lie in an ancient concept: The Hippocratic Oath. According to cybersecurity professional and author Bruce Schneier, the traditional ...

Could a Hippocratic oath for bankers make the financial industry's titans behave? A U.K.-based think tank believes so. On Tuesday, ResPublica, an independent, non-partisan organization based in London ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Eleven newly-graduated medical students in Michigan recently took the Hippocratic oath — an oath almost all medical schools have discontinued in the past generation. For 2,400 years ...

Can 158 words give the banking industry a moral core? That’s the question that the Netherlands will attempt to answer next year when it implements a requirement that its private bankers (all 90,000 of ...

The ancient Greek, Hippocrates, is considered the father of Western medicine. He is best known for writing the oath that, to this day, new doctors recite upon graduating from medical school. But as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All physicians take the Hippocratic Oath, swearing to fulfill their duty to their patients. And many prospective medical students ...