From: Lamin Sanyang <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: The Phantom Hospitals and soccer-crazed Doctors Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:27:35 +0000 The Hippocratic Oath You do solemnly swear, each by whatever he or she holds most sacred That you will be loyal to the Profession of Medicine and just and generous to its members That you will lead your lives and practice your art in uprightness and honor That into whatsoever house you shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick to the utmost of your power, your holding yourselves far aloof from wrong, from corruption, from the tempting of others to vice That you will exercise your art solely for the cure of your patients, and will give no drug, perform no operation, for a criminal purpose, even if solicited, far less suggest it That whatsoever you shall see or hear of the lives of men or women which is not fitting to be spoken, you will keep inviolably secret These things do you swear. Let each bow the head in sign of acquiescence And now, if you will be true to this, your oath, may prosperity and good repute be ever yours; the opposite, if you shall prove yourselves forsworn. -This oath is a version approved by the American Medical Association.