Reading the Hippocratic Oath right now, it&#x27;s painfully hilarious how far removed that pledge is from the way medicine is practiced right now<p>(taken from wikipedia)<p>&quot;Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient;&quot;<p>&quot;I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon&#x27;s knife or the chemist&#x27;s drug.&quot;<p>&quot;I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person&#x27;s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.&quot;<p>How quaint! That&#x27;s what a Norman Rockwell painting would sound like if it came to life.