...Johnny Bob walked to the projector, turned it on and the screen showed the section of the oath reading, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner, I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce an abortion." "Didn't Hippocrates...

...prohibited medical interventions to deliberately bring about death, as in the Oath of Hippocrates: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel". This is modified in the Declaration of Geneva, adopted by the World Medical Association in l 948 which...

...answer over thousands of years of medical ethics tradition has been No. The Hippocratic Oath says No: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel." More recently, the American College of Physicians (ACP) has said No: "Although a patient may refuse...

...patient has the right to ask for a dignified death." "And doctors have the right to refuse," Jesse said. "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such advice," he quoted the Hippocratic oath. "I don't think we can hide behind that any more. Tell me what's...

...death." The Hippocratic oath, once a staple of medical school graduation ceremonies, says in part, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked nor suggest any such counsel." Although the oath is rarely pledged these days, it decorates the wall of many a physician's office,...

...judgement, I consider for the benefit of my patients and abstain from whatever is harmful for them. I shall give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such consent and in like manner I shall not advise a woman to procure abortion. With purity and holiness...

...varies somewhat according to the particular translation, but in any translation the content is clear: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion," or "I will neither give...

...having written the vow that doctors still take today. One of the tenets of the Hippocratic Oath is "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel." This portion of the oath also states that the physician "will not give to a woman an instrument to...