Medical Ethics (CPE Week #8)

I wonder if anyone has ever read the Hippocratic Oath.  Here is the text, just in case you haven’t. I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods, and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:   To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in Read More …

The First Traveller

I am a British Christian.  My family were Christians when Ireland was still in pagan darkness. I belong  to the ancient church of this land.  I didn’t like the thought of this Irish missionary upstart.  I thought he was a puppet of the  English king, whom I hate. When I saw him coming down the lane I would have passed by in silence.  But something about him, something in the way he looked at me, made me stop. ‘Are Read More …