Word: oaths
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Captain Michael L. McHugh, professor of Naval science at MIT, administered the oath of office to 16 students who were appointed either second lieutenant in the Army, Air Force or Marine Corps or ensign in the Navy...
Medical records contain some of the most sensitive of personal information--including sexual orientation, past drug use and genetic predisposition to various diseases. As part of the Hippocratic oath, physicians promise to keep whatever they learn about a patient to themselves. But it's hard to keep a secret if more than a couple of people are in on it; in a typical five-day stay at a teaching hospital, as many as 150 people--from nursing staff to X-ray technicians to billing clerks--have legitimate access to a single patient's records...
Krauthammer's reactionary piece can only complicate the discussion of this very sensitive issue even more. His quotation of the Hippocratic oath was quite out of place: in Hippocrates' time, there were no life-prolonging devices that could reduce a dying person to little more than a houseplant. His quotation of the oath with respect to euthanasia should be compared to a doctor's admonition to use the time-honored method of bloodsucking by leeches to cure high blood pressure. JOHAN ROORYCK Leiden, the Netherlands Via E-mail...
Having sworn a solemn oath to see Harvard's calendar change before I die, I'm alarmed by the marked lack of anticalendar sentiment evident on campus these days. What follows is my attempt to fan the smoldering flames of the noble struggle against the great hated bourgeois calendar...
...banks that lent them money, including negotiating a loan renewal with a bank whose parent company was trying to get her husband to sign legislation it wanted. Much of what appears here will seem at odds with statements made by the President and First Lady, some of them under oath. At various times, they or their spokespeople have alleged that the Clintons had virtually nothing to do with Whitewater and were simply "passive" investors; that the McDougals didn't really absorb significantly more losses than the Clintons; that Hillary wasn't responsible for Madison Guaranty's becoming a client...