Papyrus fragment of Hippocratic oath

“Given how fast new technologies are changing the healthcare landscape, we may need a totally new oath in ten years; what happens when robots are performing surgery, AI systems have taken over diagnosis, and gene editing can cure almost any congenital disease?”  This piece lists nine “aphorisms” that might serve the ethical needs of modern medicine, as the Hippocratic Oath has provided since the 5^th century B. C.  MORE

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