Hippocratic Oath: 400 BC, 1964, 2026 (prevention, prevention, nope)

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400 BC includes prevention

  • "I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them."
  • I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

1964 includes prevention

  • I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
  • I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
  • I will not be ashamed to say "I know not", nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
  • I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

2026 nothing about prevention

  • I recognize that successful treatment often requires temporary harm. I will never cause harm without first having honest discussions with my patients.
  • I will remember that I always have more to offer a person in poor health than one who is healthy.

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