
What is Medical Ethics?
One of the most important steps in becoming a doctor is to take the Hippocratic oath, a promise to “first, do no harm.” As a matter of fact, the first “do no harm” is attributed to “Of the Epidemics” one of Hippocrates’ works, stating, “…the physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future; [the physician] must mediate these findings, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”