The controversial origin of the Hippocratic oath

An excerpt from White Coat Ways: A History of Medical Traditions and Their Battle With Progress. So, who wrote this immortal Hippocratic oath: Hippocrates or one of his Hippocratic followers? Though no one knows for certain, the answer is potentially neither. The most compelling evidence for this argument is that the ideals expressed in The

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