OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN’S OATH
I do hereby affirm my loyalty to the profession I am about to enter.
I will be mindful always of my great responsibility to preserve the health and the life of my
patients, to retain their confidence and respect both as a physician and a friend who will
guard their secrets with scrupulous honor and fidelity, to perform faithfully my professional
duties, to employ only those recognized methods of treatment consistent with good
judgment and with my skill and ability, keeping in mind always nature’s laws and the body’s
inherent capacity for recovery.
I will be ever vigilant in aiding in the general welfare of the community, sustaining its laws
and institutions, not engaging in those practices which will in any way bring shame or
discredit upon myself or my profession. I will give no drugs for deadly purposes to any
person, though it be asked of me.
I will endeavor to work in accord with my colleagues in a spirit of progressive cooperation and
never by word or by act cast imputations upon them or on their rightful practices.
I will look with respect and esteem upon all those who have taught me my art. To my college
I will be loyal and strive always for its best interests and for the interests of the students who
will come after me. I will be ever alert to further the application of basic biologic truths to the
healing arts and to develop the principles of osteopathic medicine as taught by my profession.
In the presence of this gathering, I bind myself to this oath.
ALMA MATER, OHIO*
When e’er we take our book of mem’ries
And scan its pages through and through
We’ll find no days that glow so brightly
As those we spent at old O.U.
Within our Alma Mater’s portals
We meet her children hand to hand,
And when there comes the day of parting,
Still firm and loyal we will stand.
Alma Mater, Ohio, Alma Mater, brave and fair!
Alma Mater, we hail thee, for we own thy kindly care.
Alma Mater, Ohio, when we read thy story o’er,
We revere thee and cheer thee
As we sing thy praise once more.
*Words and music by Kenneth S. Clark. Written in 1915 and awarded first prize in the Alma Mater Song Contest
conducted by Edwin W. Chubb, dean, College of Liberal Arts.
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