The Corruption Of The Oath Of Hippocrates

Catholic365.com ^ | September 21, 2014 | A. Patrick Schneider II, MD, MPH

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For 2500 years the Hippocratic Oath had guided, guarded and grounded the medical profession. It was a source of professional unity and pride, as well as an ancient and trusted ethical compass that assisted the profession (and patients) in the navigation of both familiar, as well as unchartered waters. Its certain call for physicians to be defenders of life, not destroyers of it, did not survive Roe and Doe.

This is a commentary on the original Hippocratic Oath and the corrupted version. The Hippocratic Oath is attributed to Hippocrates of Cos (469-399 B.C.), who is also called the Father of Medicine. This ancient Oath upheld by centuries of physicians has been corrupted by modern men and women with specific agendas.

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N.B: Pope Paul VI abolished the Oath Against Modernism in July of 1967.

[Jim Noble]

I took the Oath in 1976 and I try to live by it.

Soon, we will be administering it to the young ones in secret.

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I meant to check this article as excerpted but failed to do so.

Here’s the link:

http://www.catholic365.com/article/154/the-corruption-of-the-oath-of-hippocrates.html

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OLD

I will give no deadly medicine to any one 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. I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work.

NEW

That I will exercise my profession solely for the cure of my patients, and will give no drug, perform no operation, for a criminal purpose, even if solicited; far less suggest it.

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Notice the change from specific prohibitions against assisted suicide and abortion, to only prohibition against doing anything against the wishes of the state (criminal purpose)

This changes the source of morality from God to the State.

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"The Corruption Of The Oath Of Hippocrates"

[Monterrosa-24]

Vanderbilt Med School Grads take no version as an oath, corrupted or otherwise.

[Jacquerie]

The list of institutions soiled by the Left is too long to list.

Science in general, medicine in particular, government, military, academe, discourse, sports, and even comedy have fallen to the destroyers of all that is good.