Med School Graduation Gift with Hippocratic Oath

Hippocratic Oath

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability
and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk,
and gladly share such knowledge
as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick,
all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin
traps of over-treatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine
as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy,
and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's
knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I
fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of
another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, 
for their problems are not disclosed to me
that the world may know.

Most especially must I tread with care in matters of 
life and death. If it is given me to save a life,
all thanks.

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