A world conference entitled "Performing the Hippocratic Oath & Hippocratic Medicine and values" was held in Kos on October 20-23, which closed with a race in honor of G. Papanikolaou, on the 60th anniversary of his death.
The conference was held in Hippocrates Melathron, by the World Hippocrates Institute of Physicians and the International Hippocrates Foundation of Kos, under the auspices of ISA and the General Secretariat of Hellenism Abroad, and with the participation of seven medical schools in Greece and 14 medical schools from around the world . The purpose of the conference was the perspective of Greece's evolution into a center of medical excellence.
Distinguished medical graduates from 12 schools in Greece and abroad took the authentic Hippocratic Oath in a very special ceremony, in the presence of deans and representatives of the schools. At the same time, a Serbian-Greek educational symposium was organized under the auspices of the School of Medicine of the EKPA and the University of Thrace.
The whole event ended with the race to honor the memory of G. Papanikolaou.
In his speech, George Patoulis, president of ISA and the World Hippocratic Institute of Physicians, emphasized that care should be taken to promote Greece as a country of well-being and health, to expand the circle of excellent doctors who swear by the Hippocratic Oath, and to spread knowledge about the ancient Greek roots of Medicine.
Yannis Chrysoulakis, Secretary General of Hellenism Abroad and Public Diplomacy, in his own speech, emphasized that it is a priority for the Oath and the legacy of Hippocrates, the father of Medicine, to go beyond the borders of Greece, and to acquire the glamor and prestige that befits them.
The World Hippocratic Institute of Physicians signed a cooperation agreement with the International Hippocratic Foundation of Kos and the Panhellenic Medical Association, so that the Asklepiion of Kos could be included in the UNESCO world heritage sites.
The Hippocratic Oath is taken by doctors and refers to the ethical practice of Medicine. It is said to have been written in the 4th century BC. The original text is as follows:
In memory of Apollo the healer, and Asclepius, and Hygeia, and Panakeia, and all the gods, the poet of history, let them write to the best of their ability and judge me by this oath and by this writing.
You will become a priest who teaches with this art as well as be born, and you will share life, and you will become a poet using the transmission of debts, and a generation of brothers from the ear, as long as they criticize you, and teach this art, or I use the service of mantanas, without writing, without a contract, without a salary and a warning. He who hears and learns from the rest of the teaching, you will become sons and daughters of him who taught me.
As a judge, I am used for the benefit of those who act according to power and judgement, and for the declaration and injustice of wrath.
I do not give any medicine, I do not ask for death, I do not give advice like that. In the same way, I will not give a woman pessos fluorine. Purely and surely I will preserve my life and my art.
I don't pray without stoning, but I will set aside the work of a bloated man here.
And from the house of all, if I am, I pray for the benefit of those who burn, I am free from all unjust ekusia and flori, of the one and the other and of aphrodisiac works on the bodies of women and men, free and slaves.
Ἃ d' if in healing or I see, or hear, or even without healing against the lives of people, which I do not need to cry out, I keep silent, unspeakably delicious is such things.
I swear that if you tell me who you are, and don't hesitate, you will be the epitome of both life and art, more glorified than any other person in the world. but transgressors and imporkundi, against those who do.
Rendering in modern Greek:
I swear to God Apollo the doctor and to god Asclepius and to Health and to Panacea and invoking the testimony of all the gods that I will perform according to my power and judgment this oath and this agreement.
To consider my teacher of the medical art equal to my parents and the society of my life. And when he needs money to share mine with him. To regard his family as my brethren, and to teach them this art if they wish to learn it without tuition or other agreement.
To impart the rules of ethics, oral teaching, and all other medical knowledge to my sons, my teacher's sons, and enrolled students who have taken the medical oath, but to no one else.
I will use therapy to help patients to the best of my ability and judgment, but never to harm or wrong. Neither will I give deadly medicine to anyone who asks me for it, nor will I give him such a hint.
Likewise, I will not trust in a pregnant medium that causes an abortion. I will keep both my life and my art pure and undefiled. I will not use a scalpel even in those suffering from lithiasis, but will leave this work to the experts in the art.
In whatever houses I go, I will enter to help the sick and I will refrain from any willful harm and damage, and especially from sexual acts with men and women, free and slaves. And what I may see or hear during the treatment or beyond my professional occupations in my daily life, what should not be learned outside I will not share, considering these matters secret.
If I keep this oath and do not break it, may I always enjoy acceptance among men for my life and for my art. But if I transgress him and swear, let me suffer the opposite.
