It is a sacred promise taken by all physicians to uphold ethical standards while delivering empathetic care to the patient. It is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the western world. This ...

Somewhere along the line I'd heard that "first, do no harm" was part of the Hippocratic Oath, but when I looked it up the phrase was nowhere to be found. Though the oath was the standard for medical ...

Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is a former professor of history and humanities at Moreno Valley College and a Roman Catholic priest. This photo is from about 2017. (Courtesy Photo) In this time ...

Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in writings associated with Hippocrates, the early physician and ...

IN the past twenty-five hundred years the number of reviews, commentaries, critiques and translations of the Hippocratic writings is astounding. The effect of these writings in freeing medicine from ...

The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of medical ethics historically taken by all doctors. It is the earliest expression of medical ethics establishing several principles which remain of paramount ...

The doctor who first urged his colleagues to ‘do no harm’, and also instructed them, less memorably, to ‘observe all concretions of excreta’, was a pioneering Greek practitioner of the fifth century ...