The Hippocratic Oath: Original, translated from Greek.
“ I swear by Apollo, Æsculapius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath.
To consider dear to me as my parents him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and if necessary to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art if they so desire without fee or written promise; to impart to my sons and the sons of the master who taught me and the disciples who have enrolled themselves and have agreed to the rules of the profession, but to these alone the precepts and the instruction.
I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death.
Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion.
But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.
I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.
In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.
All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.
If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.
“ I swear by Apollo, Æsculapius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath.
To consider dear to me as my parents him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and if necessary to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art if they so desire without fee or written promise; to impart to my sons and the sons of the master who taught me and the disciples who have enrolled themselves and have agreed to the rules of the profession, but to these alone the precepts and the instruction.
I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death.
Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion.
But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.
I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.
In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.
All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.
If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.
If this shows anything, it is that the morals and ethics of medics have been an important issue since the days of the ancient greeks.
I am sad to admit that more and more doctors are forgetting those values. What happened to me today was frightening. My dentist crossed the line by 2 inches with me and I cringe at the thought. He started by telling me how beautiful I was, moved on to describing my lips, and then how fit I was. Some people are just sleazy and you cannot help it. I've spoken to 2 friends about it and got 2 different replies.
Reply 1: Are you stupid? How could you let him get away with that? From the little that you've told me he seems like an expert in this? This is called harrasment. You should do something. If I were you, I'd complain about him to management and make sure he gets fired.
Reply 2: So what? Did you not realize by now that most men are sleazy nowadays? If you want to get something done you will need to kiss ass and really suck up to them. I mean, it's not like he's locked his door and turned the lights off and intended raping you. This is harmless as long as he doesn't touch you inappropriately. Why not next time just mention that you're engaged and hopefully he'll tone down the flirting.
What bothered me most is that I always dress decently and rarely provocatively. (so I've been told plentiful). Then why did he dare and behave in such a way with me?
My decision, I shall inform you about in another post.
Till we meet again,
Sedeso
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