THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

I find it amusing that whenever there is an awakening among Nigerian Doctors and they decide to fight for their rights, clueless Nigerians then go on ranting against doctors, and their first point of call is THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH...which in their heads means set of words that bind doctors to a form of slavery in which they diligently do their jobs and are banished to a life of penury. This time I wish to take it upon myself to educate the masses. Now let's take a good look at the so called "jail sentence", THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH: Ὄμνυμι Ἀπόλλωνα ἰητρὸν καὶ Ἀσκληπιὸν καὶ Ὑγείαν καὶ Πανάκειαν καὶ θεοὺςπάντας τε καὶ πάσας, ἵστορας ποιεύμενος, ἐπιτελέα ποειν κατὰδύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμὴν ὅρκον τόνδε καὶ συγγραφὴντήνδε‧ ἡγήσεσθαι μὲντὸν διδάξαντά με τὴν τέχνην ταύτην ἴσαγενέτῃσιν ἐμοῖς, καὶ βίου οινώσεσθαι, καὶ χρεῶν χρηί̈ζοντι μετάδοσιν ποιήσεσθαι, καὶ γένος τὸ ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἀδελφοῖς ἴσον ἐπικρινεῖν ἄρρεσι, καὶ διδάξειν τὴν τέχνην ταύτην, ἢν χρηί̈ζωσι μανθάνειν, ἄνευ μισθοῦ καὶ συγγραφῆς, παραγγελίηςτε καὶ ἀκροήσιος καὶ τῆςλοίπης ἁπάσηςμαθήσιος μετάδοσιν ποιήσεσθαι υἱοῖς τε ἐμοῖς καὶ τοῖς τοῦ ἐμὲδιδάξαντος, καὶ μαθητῇσισυγγεγραμμένοις τε καὶ ὡρκισμένοις νόμῳ ἰητρικῷ, ἄλλῳ δὲ οὐδενί. διαιτήμασί τε χρήσομαι ἐπ' ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμήν, ἐπὶ δηλήσει δὲ καὶ ἀδικίῃ εἴρξειν. οὐ δώσωδὲ οὐδὲ φάρμακον οὐδενὶ αἰτηθεὶς θανάσιμον, οὐδὲ ὑφηγήσομαισυμβουλίην τοιήνδε‧ ὁμοίωςδὲ οὐδὲ γυναικὶ πεσσὸν φθόριον δώσω.ἁγνῶς δὲ καὶ ὁσίωςδιατηρήσωβίον τὸν ἐμὸν καὶ τέχνην τὴν ἐμήν. οὐ τεμέω δὲ οὐδὲ μὴν λιθιῶντας, ἐκχωρήσωδὲ ἐργάτῃσιἀνδράσι πρήξιος τῆσδε. ἐς οἰκίαςδὲ ὁκόσαςἂν ἐσίω, ἐσελεύσομαι ἐπ' ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων, ἐκτὸςἐὼν πάσης ἀδικίης ἑκουσίηςκαὶ φθορίης, τῆςτε ἄλλης καὶ ἀφροδισίων ἔργωνἐπί τε γυναικείων σωμάτωνκαὶ ἀνδρῴων, ἐλευθέρων τε καὶ δούλων. ἃ δ' ἂν ἐνθεραπείῃ ἢ ἴδω ἢ ἀκούσω, ἢ καὶ ἄνευ θεραπείης κατὰβίον ἀνθρώπων, ἃ μὴ χρή ποτε ἐκλαλεῖσθαι ἔξω,σιγήσομαι, ἄρρηταἡγεύμενος εἶναι τὰ τοιαῦτα. ὅρκον μὲνοὖν μοι τόνδε ἐπιτελέα ποιέοντι, καὶ μὴ συγχέοντι, εἴηἐπαύρασθαικαὶ βίου καὶ τέχνης δοξαζομένῳ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐς τὸν αἰεὶ χρόνον‧ παραβαίνοντι δὲ καὶ ἐπιορκέοντι, τἀναντία τούτων. “ ”THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION: I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius , 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 and agreement: 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; and that by my teaching, I will impart a knowledge of this art to my own sons, and to my teacher's sons, and to disciples bound by an indenture and oath according to the medical laws, and no others. I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an 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 epecially from the pleasures of love with women or 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 humanity and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my life. ...Did y'all notice the last paragraph...hmmhmmm...read it again, then we can safely conclude that Hippocrates himself didn't expect any government to be stupid enough to treat their doctors like trash but Nigerians seem to beat every other person to it, that's because they were the only ones in the race. So nobody should henceforth think doctors are born to be poor, cause in everything and even the HIPPOCRATIC OATH, we are distinguished.