We give a nod of gratitude to those bound by an ancient document, with a very modern purpose: the Hippocratic Oath. It's a contract more than 2,000 years old, and while it's evolved over the ...

It is a sacred promise taken by all physicians to uphold ethical standards while delivering empathetic care to the patient.

The Hippocratic oath, a roughly 2,000-year-old text with only marginal relevance to medicine today, continues to have an outsize influence on us. The oath’s language and many of its concepts are ...

A few years back, NOVA Online asked both doctors and non-doctors to comment on the relevance of the Hippocratic Oath, which most aspiring physicians take upon graduation from medical school.