Good medicine is our reward

The Hippocratic Society exists to form and sustain clinicians in the practice and pursuit of good medicine.

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Prudence, properly construed, is an indispensable virtue of the medical life, essential to the telos of medicine – a right and good healing action for a particular patient – and essential as well to the telos of the physician qua human being, the life of fulfillment and flourishing.

Edmund Pellegrino, The Virtues in Medical Practice (1993)

The Hippocratic Society will offer a compelling alternative to the de-moralized status quo of contemporary medicine. We will equip and support the next generation of those seeking to fulfill their healing profession.

—Dr. Farr Curlin, Chair, Hippocratic Society

Mission

Forming and sustaining clinicians in the practice and pursuit of good medicine.

Renewal starts at home.

Today’s medical education largely ignores the task of moral formation. In contrast, we focus on cultivating virtues that characterize good medical practitioners.
Good medicine requires good judgement

Today’s medical ethics often asks us to set aside clinical judgment in service to patient autonomy and the expectations of third parties. In contrast, we seek to discern and do what good medicine requires, thereby fulfilling our healing profession.
Good medicine is its own reward.

Today’s corporatization of healthcare treats practitioners as interchangeable “providers” who are expected to “just do your job,” contributing to a crisis of medical morale. In contrast, we embrace medicine as a sacred profession, and we help medical practitioners to flourish in serving their patient’s genuine good.

Surgeons and staff operate on a patient in Trendelenburg position with multiple observers

Woman in scrubs with stethoscope around her neck.

Surgeon with instruments operating on a patient surrounded by operating room staff.

Good medicine is our reward

Mission

Good medicine is our reward