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174: Would you ever kill someone?/Theatrical Muse
Hippocratic Oath -- Classical Version
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.
I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
I'm a doctor, a surgeon, I've taken an oath to save lives, but but that doesn't change the fact that people have died by my hand. There are those who would say I had killed them, whether due to mistakes of my own, or circumstances beyond my control, the fact remains that I failed to do what I was supposed to do.
I don't think any surgeon can look at a patient and say, you're the one that I can't save, we want to believe that we have within us the ability, the skill to find that miracle to save them all, but the truth is, we can't. We sit down with our patients, we explain the risks, and we assure them they have nothing to fear. It's a piece of cake, something we do everyday, until that alarm sounds and we realize there was something different about that patient, and we failed them...we killed them. Maybe it wasn't intentional, but the death came at our hand all the same.
Muse: Nicolas Kokoris
Fandom: Presidio Med
Words: 168 minus the Hippocratic Oath
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.
I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
I'm a doctor, a surgeon, I've taken an oath to save lives, but but that doesn't change the fact that people have died by my hand. There are those who would say I had killed them, whether due to mistakes of my own, or circumstances beyond my control, the fact remains that I failed to do what I was supposed to do.
I don't think any surgeon can look at a patient and say, you're the one that I can't save, we want to believe that we have within us the ability, the skill to find that miracle to save them all, but the truth is, we can't. We sit down with our patients, we explain the risks, and we assure them they have nothing to fear. It's a piece of cake, something we do everyday, until that alarm sounds and we realize there was something different about that patient, and we failed them...we killed them. Maybe it wasn't intentional, but the death came at our hand all the same.
Muse: Nicolas Kokoris
Fandom: Presidio Med
Words: 168 minus the Hippocratic Oath
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