Question

Today, upon graduation from medical school, physicians often recite the hippocratic oath. where did this originate, and what was its meaning?

Answer 1

Here is the correct answer of the given question above. The Hippocratic oath was named from Hippocrates, who is known as the father of Medicine in the Western Culture. The Hippocratic oath is written in Ionic Greek, in the late Fifth Century B.C. This oath is believed to be sacred wherein, the oath contains the commitment to treat the sick to the best of one's ability, to preserve patients' privacy, and to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation.