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...TIME, June 17-Medicine. "Upon graduating from medical school each & every doctor must swear the Oath of Hippocrates...
...years whittling at a stack of wood. But he was a gallant, handsome man, with the Indian's poise and dignity, and even Virginia ladies loved him, until he began to talk against secession. Back in Texas as Governor, he lost his office when he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederate Government. The whole South drummed "the hoary-haired traitor" to his grave...
...candidates who may succeed himself as President, the electoral machinery being so rigged that a determined President can virtually control the choice of his successor. Saddled with such awful responsibilities, more suitable to a national hero like Marshal Pilsudski than to Poles of lesser clay, the President must swear this great oath...
Upon graduating from medical school each & every doctor must swear the Oath of Hippocrates.* Upon being admitted to the American Medical Association and its constituent state and county medical societies, the doctor must agree to the Constitution, By-Laws and Principles of Medical Ethics of the A. M. A. Those documents contain 146 rules which place the practice of medicine in the U. S. under a closed professional dome which doctors want their patients to believe is the most beautiful, unselfish, beneficent thing on earth.† Any physician who by accident or design happens to get into the lay spotlight...
...Excerpts: "You do solemnly swear . . . That you will be loyal to the Profession of Medicine and just and generous to its members; That you will lead your lives and practice your art in uprightness and honor; That into what ever house you shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick to the utmost of your power, you holding yourselves far aloof from wrong, from corruption, from the tempting of others to vice; That you will exercise your art solely for the cure of your patients, and will give no drug, perform no operation for a criminal purpose...