[HangnJudge]

Of course the Hippocratic Oath is dead.It's dead for the same reason why belief in the well established Judeo-Christian ethic is dead....

The Hippocratic oath is not dead
No more than the Marriage vows are dead
Or a Soldier's Oath is

What is dying is attention to the oath
Many are not learning that an oath is unbreakable
Or they have so harmed their soul with sin
That they cannot see the harm they are doing to themselves

Repair comes from re-attending to our oaths
and upholding them, even at great personal cost
Even, if necessary,with our lives

I have taken the Hippocratic Oath
I am intimately aware of the consequences...

[Sun]

Honoring and respecting the oath is certainly dead.

[Gay State Conservative]

I must say that you're correct to point out that the Oath, itself,is not dead.But I fear that the sense of decency that would compel one to want to take,and adhere to,the Oath has substantially diminished (if not disappeared) in this country.