Mobile Vet Practice
Dr Judy Owens
Stress-free gentle care for the pets in your home
831-247-9597 drjudyo@gmail.com
Serving San Jose, Santa Cruz and the South Bay Area
831-247-9597 drjudyo@gmail.com
Serving San Jose, Santa Cruz and the South Bay Area
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Hippocratic Oath
The veterinary hippocratic oath:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those doctors in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures that are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism. Do no harm.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my clients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given to me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick individual, whose illness may affect the entire family and their economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter.
May I always act to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
A widely used modern version of the traditional oath was penned in 1964 by Dr. Louis Lasagna, former Principal of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University,with minor modifications to suit the special case of doctors of veterinary medicine.
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those doctors in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures that are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism. Do no harm.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my clients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given to me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick individual, whose illness may affect the entire family and their economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter.
May I always act to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
A widely used modern version of the traditional oath was penned in 1964 by Dr. Louis Lasagna, former Principal of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University,with minor modifications to suit the special case of doctors of veterinary medicine.
photo used with permission of R Naughton
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Mobile Vet Practice*Dr Judy Owens*831-247-9597*email drjudyo@gmail.com
Mobile Vet Practice*Dr Judy Owens*831-247-9597*email drjudyo@gmail.com
