Oath Lite

Cornell Medical School has rewritten the Hippocratic Oath. The Dean says Hippocrates would have done it himself had he been alive. The effort was led by Joe Fins.

Essentially it is the same, except for a few tiny modifications: that little bit about abortion and physician-assisted suicide? Out. The Greek Gods? God? Out. It's an oath. It's unoffensive. It's actually pretty good, and the new docs love it. But it is a far cry from the Hippocratic corpus:

Of the Cornell version, he said: "I think it's a wonderful oath, but it's not the Hippocratic oath." He said about 80% or 90% of medical school administer some version of the original. He said the Cornell oath is so different he would not consider it a version of the classic.