I do hereby affirm my loyalty to the profession I
am about to enter. I will be mindful always of my great responsibility
to preserve the health and the life of my patients, to retain their
confidence and respect both as a physician and a friend who will guard
their secrets with scrupulous honor and fidelity, to perform faithfully
my professional duties, to employ only those recognized methods of treatment
consistent with good judgment and with my skill and ability, keeping
in mind always nature's laws and the body's inherent capacity for recovery.
I will be ever vigilant in aiding in the general welfare of the
community , sustaining its laws and institutions, not engaging in those
practices which will in any way bring shame or discredit upon myself
or my profession. I will give no drugs for deadly purposes to any person,
though it may be asked of me.
I will endeavor to work in accord with my colleagues in a spirit
of progressive cooperation and never by word or by act cast imputations
upon them or their rightful practices.
I will look with respect and esteem upon all those who have taught
me my art. To my college I will be loyal and strive always for its best
interests and for the interests of the students who will come after
me.I will be ever alert to further the application of basic biologic
truths to the healing arts and to develop the principles of osteopathy
which were first enunciated by Andrew Taylor Still. |