Published in IV UNESC Seminar of Medical Humanities

Keywords: Hippocrates, Medical-Patient Relationship.

The origin of Ocidental Medicine occurs in Ancient Greece with the Hippocratic School, when the technical and ethical principles for healthcare that still endure were created. Our objective is to correlate Hippocratic original excerpts on medical ethics with contemporary professional and ethic parameters, showing the link between the origin of western medicine and its contemporary practice. The material of this work derives from the first volume of Hippocratic writings form the Loeb Classical Library, published by Harvard, and compared with Spanish and Portuguese translations together with the original Greek excerpts. The original excerpts from the Hippocratic writings were selected according to the relation observed with medical-patient relationship and contemporary aspects professionalism. The Hippocratic work, here exposed, shows professional and ethical aspects that remain valid and comprehensible according to contemporary parameters observed in medical practice, which can be seen in ethical works like the Medical Code of Ethics, from the Federal Council of Medicine, in Brazil.