format_quote Originally Posted by
kritikvernunft
The most important part of the
Hippocratic Oath is this one:
... if they want to learn it, to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the physician’s oath, but to nobody else.
Hmm. Most people would consider
this to be the most important part: "I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from
stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.
"Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets."
The purpose of this oath is to create a cartel which seeks to monopolize the medical sector and maximize its profits.
No, the purpose of the oath is to ensure that students are instructed in the ethics of their prospective profession before they are taught anything else.