Medical examinations of prisoners -- both before and after interrogations -- were often skipped. In 2005, the Army's surgeon general found that 15 to 50 percent of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and ...

The ritual of taking an oath upon graduating from medical school is, with a few exceptions, a routine requirement for graduation. Albeit that many students believe that they have taken the Hippocratic ...

Medical schools are increasingly adopting modernized versions of the Hippocratic Oath to reflect current societal issues, sparking debate about their effect on medical ethics, Medscape reported Jan.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have been a physician and teacher of ethics at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine for 24 years. During this ...

"As the entering class of 2020, we start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud ...

When we saw this story about the Webb County Attorney wondering why the county medical examiner never took an oath of office, thus potentially jeopardizing all her rulings, we wondered if the same ...

A physician shall be dedicated to providing competent medical care, with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights. A physician shall uphold the standards of professionalism, be honest in ...