This ethical oath is taken by physicians and is a widely known and accepted medical text, which requires new physicians to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. These medical ethics with several principles, remain paramount today and include the principles of medical confidentiality and *non-maleficence.
I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation – to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him … I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and…