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Comment
. 2020 Jul;113(7):326-329.
doi: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001117.

Reflections on the Hippocratic Oath and Declaration of Geneva in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Satyaseelan Packianathan  1 , Srinivasan Vijayakumar  1 , Paul Russell Roberts  1 , Maurice King 3rd  1
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Comment

Reflections on the Hippocratic Oath and Declaration of Geneva in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Satyaseelan Packianathan et al. South Med J. 2020 Jul.
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Modern version of the Hippocratic Oath.,
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World Medical Association’s Declaration of Geneva, 2017 (Reproduced, with permission, from: World Medical Association (WMA). WMA Declaration of Geneva. https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-geneva/).
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