Veterinarian in Society

ETHICAL OATHS AND CODES

• Since ancient times, medical practitioners have formulated and established professional rules of behaviour. Through the years, the medical profession has codified its ethics more rigorously than any other professional group.
• Many of the standard bioethics principles have been incorporated into the profession’s ethical codes and oaths.
• The standard for the medical profession for countless generations was the existing part of the Hippocratic Oath.