The Hippocratic Oath: Revisited
It's not very compatible
Someone in a health tech group chat I am in decried the failure of the Hippocratic oath among physicians today. It has some strong sentiment about contraception and contracting, however. I never took this archaic oath—my med school had a modern version. So, I thought TFPs would evaluate how it holds up…for me and this newsletter…
Also, I opened up a bunch of the backlog of posts without a paywall for the time being. Seemed a shame to have them languish. Some new posts will have a paywall, and most will not, but 202 articles were jailbroken yesterday for all of the internet to enjoy.
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“I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius the surgeon, likewise Hygeia and Panacea, and call all the gods and goddesses to witness, that I will observe and keep this underwritten oath, to the utmost of my power and judgment.”
These seem like solid Gods—especially Panacea. What a great God, t…