The ritual of taking an oath upon graduating from medical school is, with a few exceptions, a routine requirement for graduation. Albeit that many students believe that they have taken the Hippocratic ...

"As the entering class of 2020, we start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud ...

Medicine requires a degree of trust unlike any other profession. Errors by airline pilots, bus drivers, engineers and car mechanics can kill as surely as errors by doctors. But medicine alone requires ...

Medical examinations of prisoners -- both before and after interrogations -- were often skipped. In 2005, the Army's surgeon general found that 15 to 50 percent of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and ...

I have been a physician and teacher of ethics at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine for 24 years. During this time it has been a privilege to teach medical ethics to thousands of ...

If a Veterans Administration hospital has an empty bed it must admit an ailing ex-serviceman even if his illness has nothing to do with his military duty. He simply swears that he has no means to pay ...

A physician shall be dedicated to providing competent medical care, with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights. A physician shall uphold the standards of professionalism, be honest in ...