Defining Hippocratic Medicine
The
Requirements of
Hippocratic Medicine
Recognition that transcendence is essential to medicine
Practitioner & patient each accountable to a higher authority
Medicine as a Moral Activity
Acknowledgment that medicine is a moral activity
Patients helped to decide what they 'ought' to do
A
commitment to not intentionally kill or do harm
A complete separation of
killing and healing in society
Covenantal relationship between practitioner and patient
A professional relationship throughout illness until death
Informed by medical judgment, conscience and faith
Preserved by freedom to refuse treatment that is harmful
Moral consensus and enduring collegiality amongst like-minded practitioners
