Text of the oath Earliest surviving copy Although it is traditionally attributed to the Greek doctor Hippocrates and it is usually included in the Hippocratic Corpus, some modern scholars do not regard it as having been written by Hippocrates himself. The original oath was written in Ionic Greek, between the fifth and third centuries BC. It is enshrined in the legal statutes of various jurisdictions, such that violations of the oath may carry criminal or other liability beyond the oath's symbolic nature. As the seminal articulation of certain principles that continue to guide and inform medical practice, the ancient text is of more than historic and symbolic value. These include the principles of medical confidentiality and non-maleficence. The oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the Western world, establishing several principles of medical ethics which remain of paramount significance today. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts.

The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. The Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC), to whom the oath is traditionally attributed

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