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Ancient medical oath is 'updated'
The dean of a New York City medical school has rewritten part of the 2,405-year-old Hippocratic Oath to make it more inclusive for female doctors.
Antonio Gotto of Cornell's Weill College of Medicine told the New York Post he realized during rehearsals for a recent graduation that part of the oath was meaningless to his students.
"The students would laugh because it sounded so funny," Gotto told the newspaper.
The original oath opens with a promise to teach medicine, without charge, to "my own sons and those of my teachers," and, therefore, excludes female medical students.
Gotto updated the oath to read, "Just as I have learned from those who preceded me, so will I instruct those who follow me in the science and the art of medicine."
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
"The students would laugh because it sounded so funny," Gotto told the newspaper.
The original oath opens with a promise to teach medicine, without charge, to "my own sons and those of my teachers," and, therefore, excludes female medical students.
Gotto updated the oath to read, "Just as I have learned from those who preceded me, so will I instruct those who follow me in the science and the art of medicine."
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
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