I have tried to establish the hand of God in a physician's everyday life by providing some concrete examples, rather than by drawing on the faith we all have and need to have.

In the same manner, the medical student gets a sense of God as the background to the things he is studying. At the time of graduation, each candidate is required to take the Hippocratic Oath. Hippocrates, as you probably know, was a Greek physician and is known as the father of medicine."

I will repeat for you the part of the oath related to treatment of patients:

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