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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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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.
That is the central imperative of the Hippocratic oath, traditionally taken by doctors across the Western world.
The best known written code for practitioners, drawn up by insiders, is the Hippocratic oath.
It is embodied in the Hippocratic oath and in the ethical codes of virtually all health-related professions.
Oh, and the beauty is that according to the Hippocratic oath I should've left you the samples alone and let myself die.
First, it is often mistakenly thought to be part of the Hippocratic oath, an assertion that I see made regularly in the lay press.

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