Ethical Oaths

A the end of the academic year, each obstetrics and gynecology residency program has a graduation ceremony. It is important to… Expand

Russell Korobkin and Dr. Rahul Rajkumar write that GINA is emblematic of this country's piecemeal and inconsistent approach to… Expand

I've been thinking about Rainer Maria Rilke lately and what it means to be a doctor. In “Archaic Torso of Apollo” Rilke advised… Expand

Byline: Debashis. Chatterjee Sir, Amit Ranjan Basu's article 'Historicizing Indian Psychiatry'[1] and the commentaries on it by… Expand

Guidelines for Management of HAP were developed jointly by the ATS and IDSA in 2004. These guidelines were designed to improve… Expand

The white coat ceremony is a common practice at many American and European medical schools. Current justification for the… Expand

T he tremendous advances in pure science made during the 20th century have completely changed the relation between science and… Expand

We are witnessing a resurgence of professional interest in medical oaths and codes of conduct. In the United Kingdom the General… Expand

The Hippocratic Oath is to be considered a code of conduct for all physicians and not a Pythagorean manifesto, in spite of the… Expand

Contrary to popular belief, the Hippocratic Oath (the Oath) is no fixed and unalterable document of medical ethics, but has been… Expand