11/30/2017

Tweaking an Oath

The WMA recently adopted one of the largest updates to its declaration in decades

The Hippocratic Oath goes back thousands of years, but even that bedrock Greek medical pledge occasionally needs an update.

In October, the World Medical Association (WMA) quietly revamped of the Declaration of Geneva, the modern-day version of the Greek oath, which was first adopted in 1948. The group reviews the declaration about once a decade, but the current update represents the largest revision of the text in nearly 70 years, AMA Wire reported.

The changes include principles to better govern the relationships between physicians and the people they work with, including teachers and students; language that reinforces respect for patient dignity and a provision encouraging physicians to focus on their own health as well as their patients.'

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