wed@druxx.UUCP (11/14/84)
Does anybody know if this is still part of the Physicians Hippocratic Oath? "...The regimen I adopt shall be for the benefit of my patients according to my ability and judgment, and not for their hurt or for any wrong. I will give no deadly drug to any, though it be asked of me, nor will I counsel such, and especially I will not aid a woman to procure abortion. Whatsoever house I enter, there will I go for the benifit of the sick, refraining from all wrongdoing or corruption, and especially from any act of seduction, olf male or female, of bond or free. Whatsover things I see or hear concerning the life of men, in my attendance on the sick or even apart therefrom, which ought not to be noised abroad, I will keep silence theron, counting such things to be as sacred secrets." Or was part of this possibly dumped after the Supreme Court ruling on the abortion issue in 1973? My apologies if this has previously been discussed on the net. William D.
rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (11/19/84)
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that the Hippocratic Oath was no longer taken by doctors. -- Rod Williams dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw "There's so much left to say - don't drift away"
saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) (11/19/84)
Hypocrates was not against abortion. The part of the oath listed in the article was added in the 19th century (I think - much later on anyway). I heard this recently in a National (that's Canada!) Film Board movie on abortion by Gail Singer: "abortion stories North and South". (or something like that). Does anybody have more precise references to this? Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley