The Hippocratic Oath

The Hippocratic Oath is basically talking about Hippocratic’s promise when treat the patients as a physician. His words implies his loyal and steadfast to be responsible to each and every of his patients, however, some of his decisions differs from the modern ethics. Especially the words about refusal to offer others deadly medicine and never allow women to produce abortion (Hippocratic), it quite different from what the modern ethics considers today. The action of physician-assisted suicide and the abortion are what doctors nowadays work on, and both of them are highly debatable and clearly related to ethics. I think the difference between the ancient and modern ethics are caused by the flow of the time and the change of people’s mind, as the social becomes more and more liberal, people are also much open minded then before, which influences the view of the doctors as well.
One of the major appeals evidenced in the Hippocratic Oath and relates to the modern ethics is that the physicians should do their best to save lives and try to make the patients to life better, which is the same from the ancient times to nowadays. That is the foundation of the medial treatments, it is essentiality of the physician’s