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Abstract

The Hippocratic Oath is the oldest and wisest description of our profession. It contains profound wisdom on the nature of health, healing, and the relationships both within and without that are necessary to the good practice of medicine. The practices described in its lines are antidotes for much of what ails modern medicine.

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Aristotle bioethics Hippocratic Oath history of medicine history of philosophy philosophy of medicine

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