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Hippocrates à la mode

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At graduation, many medical students recite oaths vague in precept and betraying a self-solicitude inimical to professional maturity.

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  1. Henry Phipps Professor and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 600 North Wolfe Street/Meyer 4-113, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287-7413, USA

    Paul R. Mchugh

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Mchugh, P. Hippocrates à la mode. Nat Med 2, 507–509 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0596-507

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