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The Oath of Maimonides is a traditional oath for pharmacists and physicians attributed to Maimonides.It is not to be confused with the more lengthy Prayer of Maimonides.It is widely used as the traditional oath taken by pharmacists, analogous to the Hippocratic Oath for physicians, for which it is also used as an alternative.
The Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC), to whom the oath is traditionally attributed. The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical ...
The Declaration of Geneva was intended as a revision [1] of the Hippocratic Oath to a formulation of that oath's moral truths that could be comprehended and acknowledged in a modern way. [2] Unlike the case of the Oath of Hippocrates, the World Medical Association calls the statement a "pledge".
A doctor treating COVID-19 patients sits down with her husband to make a will.
Vejjavatapada, the Buddhist medical doctor's oath, is an oath to be taken by Buddhist doctors and other professionals working with the sick.. Composed by Shravasti Dhammika using text from the Pāḷi Canon, it serves as an ethical commitment similar to that of the Hippocratic Oath, the Japanese Seventeen Rules of Enjuin and the Jewish Oath of Asaph.
Each officer, state or federal, takes an oath or affirmation “…but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office….” Reading the Constitution is time well spent ...
The Nightingale Pledge. The Nightingale Pledge, named in honour of Florence Nightingale, is a modified version of the Hippocratic Oath. Lystra Gretter and a Committee for the Farrand Training School Grace for Nurses in Detroit, Michigan created the pledge in 1893.
Disagreements over abortion rights, gun control and treatment of racial minorities are some of the issues that have caused several political leaders to say they cannot take an oath or recite the ...