Hippocratic Oath a moral code for ethical conduct and practice in medicine, established according to the ideals of hippocrates.

The text is as follows:
“I swear by Apollo the physician, by Aesculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment the following oath: To consider dear to me as my parents him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and if necessary to share my goods with him; to look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art if they so desire without fee or written promise; to impart to my sons and the sons of the master who taught me and the disciples who have enrolled themselves and have agreed to the rules of the profession, but to these alone, the precepts and the instruction.
I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug, nor give advice which may cause his death.
Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion.
But I will preserve the purity of my life and my art.
I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners (specialists in this art).
In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction, and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.
All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or outside of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.
If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.”

Graduates of nearly all U.S. and Canadian medical schools recite, during commencement ceremonies, some form of pledge to observe ethical principles in the practice of medicine. But few institutions now use the original text of the hippocratic oath, and most graduates appear to regard the exercise as a mere formality or a bow to tradition rather than a legally or morally binding covenant. Modern versions of the oath typically omit remnants of culturally extinct usages such as promising to teach the art of medicine to one's teachers' children without charge and to refrain from performing surgery. More significantly, most of them also omit the invocation of any deity, the mention of sacred duties or obligations and of penalties incurred for their violation, and the foreswearing of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and sexual involvement with patients. In its decision in Roe et al. v. Wade (1973), The United States Supreme Court rejected the authority of the hippocratic oath in prohibiting abortion on the grounds that the oath did not reflect ancient cultural norms but rather owed its long preservation to the influence of Judeo-Christian views on abortion.