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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Previous Volume 350:2026-2029 May 13, 2004 Number 20 Next

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Every spring for almost 20 years, I have happily donned a rented robe, hood, and mortarboard to attend medical school commencement exercises. The purpose of this annual foray into pomp and circumstance goes well beyond applauding the achievements of graduates who are about to enter the medical profession. For me, commencement is the perfect opportunity to renew my vows, as it were, standing shoulder to shoulder with both newly minted doctors and like-minded colleagues as we take the Hippocratic Oath.

Although many scholars dispute the exact authorship of the writings ascribed to the ancient physician Hippocrates, who probably lived sometime . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Center for the History of Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.

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