Talk:Hippocratic Oath
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The article seems misleading in implying that only sections of the hippocratic oath have been dropped in some places.
As far as I know it isn't actually used (or sworn) by doctors in most of the first world. Certainly it isn't in the UK.
Does any country actually still use it?
--BozMo|talk 11:23, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I am failrly certain it is still taught and referred to but I don't whether it is still formally recited as a "pledge" at graduation ceremonies anywhere. The article suggests that formal ceremonial use is declining but I don't know whether it is extinct. I doubt it but can't prove it. Alteripse 11:54, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Source of quoted oath
I have removed:
- (PBS/Johns Hopkins (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_today.html); but please also note that the Johns Hopkins source words the ancient Oath differently from the above, which is apocryphal/unsourced)
as part of a revision. The writer makes a very important point that the Oath quoted is unreferenced as to the source. Does anyone have a source or should we replace this version with one for which there is a credible source? --CloudSurfer 22:42, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
