oath for healers - A new oath for clinicians

by Rose Rohloff

THE ORIGINAL HIPPOCRATIC OATH ALTERED & EXPANDED

Caring for health will not improve until we bring back oaths: binding testimonials for committed healers. The privilege and honor of being in charge of lives with integrated souls is not a job; it is a calling. We, individual Christians - not schools, governmental agencies or regulatory bodies - hold each other to the highest standards. And, oaths are taken and upheld by individuals. The following expansion on the original Hippocratic oath is for MD/DO/DC, PA, RN/LPN, Naturopath, Therapists, etc. anyone within the industry of healing. 

I        (name)        will perform my duties with faith and trust in God as my guide, and continually learn as long as I perform my duties. I will impart a knowledge of the art of healing, mentoring and teaching those I serve. Above all else, I will abstain from whatever is deleterious, mischievous, malfeasance or unjust to those being treated, and I will not break what is not broken, for that is doing harm. 

I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit the persons I see, according to my greatest ability and judgment, always providing proper informed consent of all alternatives, ramifications, risks and possible outcomes - for any and all treatments, herbs, supplements, medicines, procedures and surgeries. 

I will preserve the unalienable rights endowed by the Creator on every individual human life, from conception to natural death. I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan for intentionally ending a life; and similarly I will not give a woman or cause an abortion. In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art. I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, avoiding any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption, including the seduction of women or men. Whatever I see or hear in the lives of those I care for, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private. 

I will, remain faithful to this oath and fiercely and honorably battle illnesses regardless of societal coercion, derision by others or imperilment to my livelihood and life. So long as I maintain this Oath faithfully and without corruption, may it be granted to me to partake of life fully, and the practice of my art to heal and mentor for staying healthy, giving glory to God for His gift of healing. However, should I transgress this Oath and violate it, may the opposite be my fate.

So help me GOD.

Clinicians post degrees; what about posting the oath
they abide by, adhere to, and practice within its ethos?