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What does Hippocratic oath mean?

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  1. (medicine) An oath sworn by newly-qualified physicians that they will observe the medical ethics that derived from Hippocrates
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That is the central imperative of the Hippocratic oath, traditionally taken by doctors across the Western world.
Resigned to his status as a lowly hospital attendant at the Whitestone Sanitarium, Jerome dreams of the day he can once again ply the Hippocratic oath.
I shook hands with the dean, swore the Hippocratic oath, signed up with the Medical Defence Union, and went to a party.
Of all the institutes that swear oaths, only three use the classic Hippocratic oath.
The best known written code for practitioners, drawn up by insiders, is the Hippocratic oath.
This may sound odd if your vision of medical ethics is the application to medicine of the Hippocratic oath.

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