In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction . . . All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession . . . which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.
From the Hippocratic oath (circa 400 B.C.)
Such a simple declaration was adequate for the dawn era of modern medicine but it does not go half far enough for the modern psychiatrist, says Dr. Maurice Levine, professor of psychiatry at...
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