At a time when the psychiatrists express their dissatisfaction by reminding them that they are not police auxiliaries, while the ARS Paca asks psychiatric hospitals to collaborate in the expulsion of undocumented migrants… Agnès Buzyn the Minister of Health, but also a professor of medicine, intervenes and disavows his Regional Health Agency … It is worth remembering that any doctor, registered with the council of the order, can only be registered if he has pronounced, to loud and intelligible, the Hippocratic Oath. Apparently our minister remembers it perfectly …
Hippocrates born in Greece, 460 years before our era, founder of modern medicine and especially of ethical rules which have not aged …
THE OATH:
Upon admission to practice medicine, I promise and swear to be true to the laws of honor and probity.
My first concern will be to restore, preserve or promote health in all its elements, physical and mental, individual and social.
I will respect all people, their autonomy and their will, without any discrimination according to their state or their convictions. I will intervene to protect them if they are weakened, vulnerable or threatened in their integrity or their dignity. Even under duress, I will not use my knowledge against the laws of humanity.
I will inform patients of the decisions being considered, their reasons and their consequences.
I will never deceive their confidence and will not exploit the power inherited from the circumstances to force the consciences.
I will take care of the needy and whoever asks for it. I will not let myself be swayed by the thirst for gain or the pursuit of glory.
Admitted in the intimacy of the people, I will keep silent the secrets which will be entrusted to me. Received inside the houses, I will respect the secrets of the hearths and my conduct will not serve to corrupt morals.
I will do everything to soothe the pain. I do not unreasonably prolong the agony. I never deliberately provoke death.
I will preserve the independence required for the fulfillment of my assignment. I will not undertake anything that goes beyond my skills. I will maintain them and improve them to best provide the services that will be requested of me.
I will bring my help to my colleagues as well as to their families in the face of adversity.
May men and my colleagues grant me their esteem if I am faithful to my promises; that I am dishonored and despised if I fail.
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