To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art ​ — if they desire to learn it — ​ without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but to no one else.
वरती उल्लेखिलेल्या १९९३ सालाच्या सर्वेक्षणात दिसून आले की, वापरात असलेल्या बहुतेक शपथांमध्ये, डॉक्टरांनी रुग्णांना दिलेल्या वचनावर जोर देण्यात आला आहे; यामुळे भावी डॉक्टरांना आपल्या रुग्णांची होता होईल तितकी चांगली काळजी घेण्याचे वचन द्यावे लागते.