I was delighted to see the recent article by Drs Pai and Pandya, arguing in favour of a new Hippocratic Oath for India and containing a proposed new text. I think their proposed new Oath admirable.I have two comments. First, concerning needless investigations, the new Oath mentions corrupt dealings with laboratories and imaging services, but it seems to me that such references are rather too historically specific/contingent, that they apply so readily to our own era that they may not stand for the future. Surely a more general/inclusive wording would help the new Oath stand for longer, say, if it applied to other forms of corrupt/questionable practices, such as kickbacks, of which we are not yet aware and which we might, therefore, not have contemplated/included. A slightly less specific wording might help embrace future developments.
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