The School of Medicine Hippocratic Oath ceremony, at which the school's graduating medical students recite the famous oath (see below) that binds physicians to lifelong careers treating patients, took place Fri., May 13 in the Duke Chapel. Mary Klotman, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine, gave the keynote; watch below starting at 14:55.
This video is also available on the Duke University On Demand video site.
[toggle title_open="close" title_closed="Hippocratic Oath" hide="yes" border="yes" style="default" excerpt_length="0" read_more_text="Read More" read_less_text="Read Less" include_excerpt_html="no"]This is the version of the oath taken by graduates of the Duke University School of Medicine:
I do solemnly swear by whatever I hold most sacred, that I will be loyal to the profession of medicine and just and generous to its members.
That I will lead my life and practice my Art in uprightness and honor.
That into whatsoever home I shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick and the well to the utmost of my power, and that I will hold myself aloof from wrong and from corruption and from the tempting of others to vice.
That I will exercise my Art, solely for the cure of my patients and the prevention of disease and will give no drugs and perform no operation for a criminal purpose and far less suggest such a thing.
That whatsoever I shall see or hear of the lives of men which is not fitting to be spoken, I will keep inviolably secret.
These things I do promise and in proportion as I am faithful to this oath, may happiness and good repute be ever mine, the opposite if I shall be forsworn.[/toggle]