The Hippocratic Oath is an oath pronounced by graduates in the area of medicine towards their new colleagues, this oath has a highly ethical content by which all doctors must be governed when practicing medicine.
This type of Oath seeks in one way or another to guide medical professionals at the time they are practicing their trade; teaching them through the oath that they must be humble and simple in front of their patients, that the service they offer will not only be partial to those with purchasing power, but that all public who are ill be, black, white, rich or poor, slaves among other differences must be taken care of, as well as, this oath obliges them to have discretion over all aspects of the lives of their patients, no matter how horrible what they have seen or what they know, doctors do not they must disclose any information.
The doctors when pronouncing the oath also indicates that they will never take actions against the life of the patient, that is, they will never offer to take deadly drugs that could end the life of the patient, even if the application of said drug was ordered by larger entities; Another relevant aspect is that doctors swear to give learning of their art to all those who wish to learn without any type of social or personal prejudice, in the same way, all people who participated in the learning of the participating doctor must be honored and respected by the same ones, since I give him fundamental knowledge for the practice of his profession.
This oath was created by Hippocrates a Greek whose birth occurred 460 years before Christ, this character is the aforementioned "father of medicine" because he gave a great boost to this science, turning its practice from being archaic to being a science that It must be based on the observation of the patient to be able to deduce his disease and also apply the necessary healing methods to eradicate it, at that time this character was considered a magician for that reason he was nicknamed "the magician of cos"Due to its origin and that he had been born and inhabited the islands of Cos for life, dying 380 years before Christ, leaving his disciples numerous texts in which they made reference to multiple works and investigations carried out by himself.
