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    This document outlines a new oath for physicians that focuses on compassionate care for patients. It states that physicians will be honest with patients, provide treatment options and allow patients to make their own healthcare decisions. The oath also says physicians will treat all patients with empathy, regardless of circumstance, and provide comfort as well as cure when possible.

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    This document outlines a new oath for physicians that focuses on compassionate care for patients. It states that physicians will be honest with patients, provide treatment options and allow patients to make their own healthcare decisions. The oath also says physicians will treat all patients with empathy, regardless of circumstance, and provide comfort as well as cure when possible.

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    This document outlines a new oath for physicians that focuses on compassionate care for patients. It states that physicians will be honest with patients, provide treatment options and allow patients to make their own healthcare decisions. The oath also says physicians will treat all patients with empathy, regardless of circumstance, and provide comfort as well as cure when possible.

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    This document outlines a new oath for physicians that focuses on compassionate care for patients. It states that physicians will be honest with patients, provide treatment options and allow patients to make their own healthcare decisions. The oath also says physicians will treat all patients with empathy, regardless of circumstance, and provide comfort as well as cure when possible.

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    A new oath for physicians

    In the name of suffering humanity, with humility, compassion, and dedication to the welfare of
    the sick according to the best of my ability and judgement, I will keep this oath and
    stipulations:
    I will be honest with my patients in all medical matters. When this honesty reveals bad
    news, I will deliver it with understanding and sympathy and tact.
    I will provide my patients with acceptable alternatives for various forms of diagnosis and
    medical and surgical treatment, explaining the risks and benefits as best I know them.
    I will allow my patients to make the ultimate decision about their own care. In
    circumstances where my patients are incapable of making decisions, I will accept the decision
    of family members or loved ones, encouraging them to decide as they believe the patient would
    have decided.
    I will not sit in moral judgement on any patient, but will treat their illness to the best of my
    ability whatever the circumstances.
    I will be empathetic to patients with illnesses caused by substances such as alcohol or drugs,
    or other forms of self-abuse usually believed to be under voluntary control.
    Knowing my own inadequacies and those of medicine generally, I will strive to cure when
    possible but to comfort always.
    I shall perform medical tests only if I believe there is a reasonable chance that the results will
    improve the outcome.
    I will not perform any tests or procedures or surgery solely to make money. I will freely
    refer my patients to other physicians if I am convinced that they are better able than I to
    provide treatment.
    I will freely furnish copies of medical records to patients or their families upon request.
    I will do unto patients and their families only what I would want done unto me or my
    family. I will not experiment on patients unless the patients give truly informed consent. I will
    strive to instruct patients fully so their informed consent is possible.
    I will remain a student all my professional life, attempting to learn not only from formal
    medical sources but from my patients as well.
    I will attempt to function as a teacher for my patients so that I can care for them more
    effectively and can apply the lessons they provide to the care of other patients.
    I will provide care to all patients seeking it, regardless of sex, race, colour, creed, sexual
    preference, lifestyle, or economic status. In particular, I will volunteer some of my time to
    providing free care to the poor, the homeless, the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, and the
    helpless.
    I will turn away no patient, even though with dreaded contagious diseases.
    I will encourage my patients to seek medical opinions other than my own before agreeing to
    accept my opinion.
    I will treat my professional colleagues with respect and honour, but I will not hesitate to
    testify openly about physicians and medical institutions that are guilty of malpractice,
    malfeasance, cupidity, or fraud.
    I will defend with equal fervour colleagues who are unjustly accused of malpractice,
    malfeasance, cupidity, or fraud.

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