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promise that my medical knowledge will be used to benefit people’s health; patients are my first concern. I will listen to them, and provide the best care I can. I will be honest, respectful, and compassionate towards all.

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will do my best to help anyone in medical need, in emergencies. I will make every effort to ensure the rights of all patients are respected, including vulnerable groups who lack means of making their needs known.

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will exercise my professional judgement as independently as possible, uninfluenced by political pressure or the social standing of my patient. I will not put personal profit or advancement above my duty to my patient.

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recognize the special value of human life, but i also know that prolonging life is not the only care of health care. If I agree to perform abortion, i agree it should take place only within an ethical and legal context.

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will not provide treatments that are pointless or harmful, or which an informed or competent patient refuses. I will help patients find the information and support their want to make decisions on their care.

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will answer as truthfully as I can, and respect patient’s decisions, unless that puts others at risk of substantial harm. If I cannot agree with their requests, I will explain why.

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f my patients have limited mental awareness, I will still encourage them to participate in decisions as much as they feel able. I will do my best to maintain confidentiality about all patients.

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f there are overriding reasons preventing my keeping a patient’s confidentiality I will explain them. I will recognize the limits of my knowledge and seek advice from colleagues as needed. I will acknowledge my mistakes.

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will do my best to keep myself and my colleagues informed of new developments, and ensure that poor standards or bad practices are exposed to those who can improve them.

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will show respect for all those with whom I work and be ready to share my knowledge by teaching others what I know. I will use my training and professional standing to improve the community in which I work.

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will treat patients equitably and support a fair and humane distribution of health resources. I will try to influence positively authorities whose policies harm public health.

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will oppose policies which breach internationally accepted standards of human rights. I will strive to change laws that are contrary to patients’ interests or to my professional ethics.

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hile I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the Art, respected by all, in all times

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swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius and Health and All-heal, and all the gods and goodness, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this oath and stipulation – to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this Art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation, and that by percept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of this Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none other.

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will follow that system of regimen, which, according to my ability and judgement, I consider for benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever his deleterious and mischievous.

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will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.

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will not cut persons labouring under the stone, but will leave this work to be done by men who are practitioners of this work.

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nto whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for benefit of the sick and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further, from the seduction of females, or males, of freemen or slaves.

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hatever, in connection with my professional practice, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.

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hile I continue to keep this oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and practice this Art, respected by all men, in all times. Should I violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot.