THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me."
THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH
"I swear by APOLLO, ASCLEPIUS, HYGIEIA, and PANACEA, and I take to witness ALL THE GODS, ALL THE GODESSES, 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.
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."
It is a crying shame that all healers and practitioners of modern medicine in the world must be condemned to hell for swearing to false gods. I guess I will see them there.
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