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Article: Hippocratic oath gives way to `ethics a la mode'.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 22, 1996
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The Hippocratic oath has been revised extensively for political correctness and other purposes in recent years, and some doctors charge this has weakened and stripped the oath of the "father of medicine" of its focus.
Dr. Paul R. McHugh, Henry Phipps professor and director of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins, expressed his concerns about oaths being recited in medical school commencements in a commentary published this month in the journal Nature Medicine.
He argued that some of the revised versions of the 2,500-year-old oath, including those now in use at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Harvard, tend to ...