{"id":179586,"date":"2017-07-07T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=179586"},"modified":"2017-07-09T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T04:20:58","slug":"saitm-saitm-saitm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/saitm-saitm-saitm\/","title":{"rendered":"SAITM\u00a0 –\u00a0 SAITM\u00a0 –\u00a0 SAITM"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Rusiripala Tennakoon<\/a>\u00a0\u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rusiripala Tennakoon<\/p><\/div>\n

There was a time in history where people were made to believe that health problems were a result of unseen super natural forces beyond the understanding of the patients.\u00a0<\/span>There was also a period when the medical profession was dominated by untrained quacks who portrayed themselves as Physicians.\u00a0<\/span>What they really did was swindling the patients stripping them of money and wealth by making them believe those myths.\u00a0<\/span>The qualified physicians who honestly believed in treating the patients were in a dilemma due to those highly unethical and unprofessional individuals dominating the scene hell-bound to make a quick-buck.<\/p>\n

It was in this background that the famous historical \u201cHippocratic Oath\u201d of the medical profession came to be accepted universally.\u00a0<\/span>This oath in its original format was designed to ensure to provide a basis for the people to distinguish between the professional physicians from the con-men, and to create a trust in the ordinary people in medicine as a profession.<\/span><\/p>\n

The oath is for persons entering the profession to serve as a guide for the moral ethics that one has to observe in the profession and it is a model code of professional ethics. The things that a doctor can do and cannot do are included in it.\u00a0<\/span>The basic theme of the oath is \u201cheal but don\u2019t harm\u201d. <\/i><\/b> It also emphasizes the fact that the medical knowledge is something that embodies several obligations to be observed by those who possess such knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

This Hippocratic Oath underwent changes and amendments many times subsequently.\u00a0<\/span>The General Assembly of the World Medical Association meeting at Geneva in 1948, adopted a new Physicians Oath.\u00a0<\/span>This was known as the \u201cDeclaration of Geneva\u201d.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The declaration mainly focused on the importance of a physician\u2019s dedication to the humanitarian aspects of the medical profession.\u00a0<\/span>It was regarded as a revision of the original oath to encompass the modern developments in up keeping the moral truths that underlined the Hippocratic Oath.\u00a0<\/span>World Medical Association adopted the revised version in 1948 and named it as the \u201cDeclaration of Geneva\u201d.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

As it stands today, when a person enters the medical profession, to be admitted has to take this oath which in outline reads as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n