General Practitioners: Hippocratic Oath

Lord McColl of Dulwich Excerpts

Thursday 11th December 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord McColl of Dulwich (Con)]

My Lords, is the Minister aware that the first half of the Hippocratic oath is all to do with protecting doctors and that there is no mention of patients until way down the page? Furthermore—I used to read this out to my medical students—it contains a promise to supply “all the financial needs of those who taught me medicine”. None of them did.

[Baroness Jolly]

My Lords, I think that doctors have always been very good at looking after their own interests.