About Us
The Hippocratic Society is a community of medical students and practitioners together seeking to live up to their healing profession.
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.
Get Involved
Join us in our mission to uphold the values of the medical profession. Find a local chapter near you or connect with us online.