Hippocratic Oath
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Management as a profession requires membership as a leader and demands professional ethics. This is clearly expressed in the Hippocratic Oath of the Greek physician Hippocrates 2,500 years ago. Do no harm while knowing, is the principle.
Hippocratic Oath is a pledge to the Greek gods regarding the ethics and duties of physicians. It is the foundation of modern medical ethics, including the idea of protecting the lives and health of patients, protecting their privacy, maintaining the dignity of professionals, maintaining the apprenticeship system and the closed nature of the profession, and more. I swear by Apollo, Asclepius, Hygieia, Panacea, and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant: To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the physician's oath, but to nobody else.
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing.
Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course.
Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
Richard Severson's Four Principles
Respect for intellectual property
Respect for privacy
Fair representation
Non-maleficence or "doing no harm"