The Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath is basically talking about Hippocratic’s promise when treat the patients as a physician. His words implies his loyal and steadfast to be responsible to each and every of his patients, however, some of his decisions differs from the modern ethics. Especially the words about refusal to offer others deadly medicine and never allow women to produce abortion (Hippocratic), it quite different from what the modern ethics considers today. The action of physician-assisted suicide and the abortion are what doctors nowadays work on, and both of them are highly debatable and clearly related to ethics. I think the difference between the ancient and modern ethics are caused by the flow of the time and the change of people’s mind, as the social becomes more and more liberal, people are also much open minded then before, which influences the view of the doctors as well.
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The Hippocratic’s oath today might represents the idea of some of the conservative ideas, which only considers the purpose of physician as helping others and do not allow the action of killing to occur in any conditions.
One of the major appeals evidenced in the Hippocratic Oath and relates to the modern ethics is that the physicians should do their best to save lives and try to make the patients to life better, which is the same from the ancient times to nowadays. That is the foundation of the medial treatments, it is essentiality of the physician’s
job. The only change through time is people’s opinion towards the some problems, like whether it is proper for the doctor to produce the assisted suicide and let women to abortion. After the change of the mind, physicians find out that sometimes assisted suicide and abortion is a kind of relief for the patients, it seems that they would like to hurt themselves, but actually it is the only way for them to get rid of the miserable present condition and to live better by the extreme ways. The Hippocratic Oath states the foundational thinking of the physicians, which is to do good to the patients, and the detail of what they should do could be altered through time, just like what is considered immoral before is proved to be helpful for some patients, thus the physician-assisted suicide and abortion is allowed under careful censor nowadays.
The Hippocratic’s oath today might represents the idea of some of the conservative ideas, which only considers the purpose of physician as helping others and do not allow the action of killing to occur in any conditions.
One of the major appeals evidenced in the Hippocratic Oath and relates to the modern ethics is that the physicians should do their best to save lives and try to make the patients to life better, which is the same from the ancient times to nowadays. That is the foundation of the medial treatments, it is essentiality of the physician’s
job. The only change through time is people’s opinion towards the some problems, like whether it is proper for the doctor to produce the assisted suicide and let women to abortion. After the change of the mind, physicians find out that sometimes assisted suicide and abortion is a kind of relief for the patients, it seems that they would like to hurt themselves, but actually it is the only way for them to get rid of the miserable present condition and to live better by the extreme ways. The Hippocratic Oath states the foundational thinking of the physicians, which is to do good to the patients, and the detail of what they should do could be altered through time, just like what is considered immoral before is proved to be helpful for some patients, thus the physician-assisted suicide and abortion is allowed under careful censor nowadays.